--- title: The Juju Charm Championship begins description: Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the Juju Charm Championship, in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative with Juju charms. […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/the-juju-charm-championship-begins?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Mark Baker](https://canonical.com/blog/author/markbaker "More about Mark Baker") 1 July 2013 # The Juju Charm Championship begins [charm](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/charm) [cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/cloud) [Juju](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/juju) [OpenStack](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/openstack) --- Share the article *Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms* Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the [Juju Charm Championship](https://github.com/juju/charm-championship "Juju Charm Championship"), in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative with Juju charms. If you haven’t met Juju yet, now’s the ideal time to dive in. Juju is a service orchestration tool, a simple way to build entire cloud environments, deploy scale and manage complex workloads using only a few commands. It takes all the knowledge of an application and wraps it up into a re-usable Juju charm, ready to be quickly deployed anywhere. And you can modify and combine charms to create a custom deployment that meets your needs. Juju is a powerful tool, and its flexibility means it’s capable of things we haven’t even imagined yet. So we’re kicking off the Charm Championship to discover what happens when the best developers bring Juju into their clouds — with big rewards on offer. **The prizes** As well as showing off the best achievements to the community, our panel of judges will award $10,000 cash prizes to the best charmed solutions in a range of categories. That’s not all. Qualifying participants will be eligible for a joint marketing programme with Canonical, including featured application slots on [ubuntu.com](http://ubuntu.com/),  joint webinars and more. Win the Charm Championship and your app will reach a whole new audience. **Get started today** If you’re a Juju wizard, we want to see what magic you’re already creating. If you’re not, now’s a great time to start — it only takes five minutes to get going with Juju. The Charm Championship runs until 22 October 2013, and it’s open to individuals, teams, companies and organisations. For more details and full competition rules, visit the [Charm Championship page](https://github.com/juju/charm-championship). [Charm Championship page](https://github.com/juju/charm-championship) ## 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. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Deploy your Spring Boot application to production](https://canonical.com/blog/deploy-spring-application-to-production) In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the... [Javier de la Puente](https://canonical.com/blog/author/javierdelapuente) 13 January 2026 [### Join Canonical at the first-ever African OpenInfra Days](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-at-the-first-ever-african-openinfra-days) For the second time, and in less than one month, Canonical is coming to East Africa! Three weeks ago, we had the first-ever UbuCon Africa, which was co-located with DjangoCon... [Sharon Koech](https://canonical.com/blog/author/skoech) 2 September 2025 [### Run agentic workloads on Arm and Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/run-agentic-workloads-on-arm-and-ubuntu) In the lead-up to Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Canonical and Arm are collaborating to certify the new Arm AGI CPU on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). Learn what this means for... [Youssef Eltoukhy](https://canonical.com/blog/author/usf197) 26 May 2026 [### How to set up a micro lab: four principles for a reliable homelab](https://canonical.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-reliable-homelab) After over a decade of running a homelab, I have learned a few difficult lessons. Although it begins as a “lab,” you inevitably end up with something you want to keep. If a... [Jake Nabasny](https://canonical.com/blog/author/slapcat) 17 March 2026