--- title: Deploying a Juju Cluster on Brightbox Cloud description: Juju is described as a state-of-the-art, open source, universal model for service oriented architecture and service oriented deployments. It takes the configuration scripts written in other tools and wraps them into a charm which can be deployed either with the Juju CLI tool or its GUI interface. And it’s really easy to run up a […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/deploying-a-juju-cluster-on-brightbox-cloud?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 24 August 2015 # Deploying a Juju Cluster on Brightbox Cloud [Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/juju) --- Share the article [Juju](https://jujucharms.com/docs/stable/about-juju) is described as a state-of-the-art, open source, universal model for service oriented architecture and service oriented deployments. It takes the configuration scripts written in other tools and wraps them into a [charm](https://jujucharms.com/store) which can be deployed either with the Juju CLI tool or its GUI interface. And it’s really easy to run up a cluster to play with on Brightbox Cloud. ## Install In the [Brightbox Platforms repository](https://github.com/brightbox/brightbox-platforms) on GitHub there is a juju directory that will [build a Juju cluster automatically](https://github.com/brightbox/brightbox-platforms/tree/master/juju). So once you have the [Brightbox CLI](https://www.brightbox.com/docs/guides/cli/installation/) installed and SSH working, then clone the repository. `git clone https://github.com/brightbox/brightbox-platforms.git` Change into the Juju directory `cd juju` and run the cluster build script `./build-cluster` This will build a Juju management station running the GUI and a single 4gb SSD server to be managed by by it. `Building Juju cluster from trusty base image img-548oh Juju Cluster #1 security group id is grp-ytzon Building Juju Cluster #1 Management Jumpstation Creating a 512mb.ssd (typ-1j3zh) server with image ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server (img-548oh) in groups grp-ytzon with 0.82k of user data` id status type zone creat... image\_id cloud... name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- srv-z0iwb creating 512mb.ssd gb1-a 2015-... img-5... Juju ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waiting for server srv-z0iwb to complete build....... Mapping cip-h9v3l to interface int-nxdiz on srv-z0iwb id status public\_ip destination reverse\_dns name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cip-h9v3l mapped 109.107.35.57 srv-z0iwb cip-109-107-35-57.gb1... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- id status public\_ip destination reverse\_dns name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cip-h9v3l mapped 109.107.35.57 srv-z0iwb cip-109-107... Juju Cluste... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waiting for ssh logon for ubuntu@cip-h9v3l.gb1.brightbox.com......... Bootstrapping Juju GUI Bootstrapping environment "manual" Starting new instance for initial state server Installing Juju agent on bootstrap instance Logging to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log on remote host Running apt-get update Installing package: curl Installing package: cpu-checker Installing package: bridge-utils Installing package: rsyslog-gnutls Installing package: cloud-utils Installing package: cloud-image-utils Fetching tools: curl -sSfw 'tools from %{url\_effective} downloaded: HTTP %{http\_code}; time %{time\_total}s; size %{size\_download} bytes; speed %{speed\_download} bytes/s ' --retry 10 -o $bin/tools.tar.gz <[https://streams.canonical.com/juju/tools/releases/juju-1.22.6-trusty-amd64.tgz]> Bootstrapping Juju machine agent Starting Juju machine agent (jujud-machine-0) Bootstrap complete Added charm "cs:trusty/juju-gui-38" to the environment. Building cluster service machines Creating a 4gb.ssd (typ-sdipw) server with image ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server (img-548oh) in groups grp-ytzon with 0.00k of user data id status type zone creat... image\_id cloud... name ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- srv-y3z8f creating 4gb.ssd gb1-a 2015-... img-548oh Juju C... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waiting for server srv-z0iwb to complete build Waiting for server srv-y3z8f to complete build........ Adding machines to cluster... srv-y3z8f Waiting for ssh logon for ubuntu@cip-h9v3l.gb1.brightbox.com.. Logging to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log on remote host Running apt-get update Installing package: curl Installing package: cpu-checker Installing package: bridge-utils Installing package: rsyslog-gnutls Installing package: cloud-utils Installing package: cloud-image-utils Fetching tools: curl -sSfw 'tools from %{url\_effective} downloaded: HTTP %{http\_code}; time %{time\_total}s; size %{size\_download} bytes; speed %{speed\_download} bytes/s ' --noproxy "\*" --insecure -o $bin/tools.tar.gz <[https://srv-z0iwb.gb1.brightbox.com:17070/tools/1.22.6-trusty-amd64]> Starting Juju machine agent (jujud-machine-1) created machine 1 Juju bootstrapping complete. Juju GUI will shortly be available at: https://cip-h9v3l.gb1.brightbox.com/ The username is "admin" and the password, taken from ~/.juju/environments/manual.jenv on cip-h9v3l.gb1.brightbox.com is: password: 52029095a7947f349f392fd34455ff70 Add additional service machines from the management server by creating them with the Brightbox CLI or the management GUI and then add them into the cluster by running: juju add-machine srv-xxxxx Point a browser at the url given and login with the username and password shown. You’re then ready to deploy a charm! ## Deploy a charm Once you have the GUI working, you can deploy ‘charms’ by dragging them from the search bar on the left to the main canvas. Let’s run through a simple WordPress/MySQL combination to get the idea. First find the wordpress and mysql charms using the search tool on the left and drag them to the canvas. Click on the wordpress icon to reveal the build relation menu drag across to the wordpress icon to create a relationship. Next click on the machines tab and for each ‘new unit’ on the left hand side select a machine and container that unit should be deployed to – in this case machine #1. once you’ve placed all the units on machines, hit the Commit button Go back to the canvas screen and wait for the icon indicators to go green to show they have installed and configured. You’re then ready to use WordPress. ### About the author Neil Wilson is a consultant at BrightBox and an expert in finance and information systems. He is an advocate for the free software community and loves to make things happen. You can read more from Neil on the [BrightBox blog](https://www.brightbox.com/blog/author/neil-wilson/). [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. 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