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title: JAAS
description: JAAS (Juju as a service) provides a single location to interact, manage
  and audit your Juju infrastructure using a dashboard or the Juju CLI commands.
url: https://canonical.com/jaas?format=md
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# Take control of your large-scale Juju deployments

JAAS is Juju for enterprise.

[Contact us](https://canonical.com/contact-us)

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## Main JAAS components

### Backend API server (JIMM)

JAAS has a backend API server (JIMM) that is responsible for managing all interactions with the downstream Juju controllers.

Admins and users can interact with this service through the same Juju CLI and Terraform Provider for Juju.

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### Dashboard

A graphical user interface to simplify common administrative operations.

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## Why use JAAS?

### Have to manage multiple Juju controllers

JAAS simplifies the provisioning and lifecycle management of controllers and charms at scale, automating activities like model migrations and controller upgrades.

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### Need to meet tighter security and compliance requirements

JAAS offers additional security features like single sign-on (SSO) on both the dashboard and the CLI, permission management, fine-grained Juju controller activity auditing, and soon an SSH proxy and service accounts for the Terraform provider.

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### Prefer to interact with your system with a web interface

The dashboard offers a simplified way for administrators to perform common administrative operations and monitor the state of the deployment.

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## Enhanced control and visibility for your Juju deployment

JAAS is your centralized enterprise control plane for Juju deployments.

With JAAS you can:

* View models and controllers details
* Run actions
* Configure applications
* Onboard controllers and manage access
* Run audits and reports
* Search and filter

View models and controllers details
Run actions
Configure applications
Onboard controllers and manage access
Run audits and reports
Search and filter

Drill down to view the details of everything that is deployed inside a model, such as applications, integrations, units, and more.

Execute Juju action from the UI and view the resulting logs to confirm their status.

Perform common administrative operations and apply machine configurations.

Onboard controllers and add, remove, or manage user access to models and controllers.

Access the logs from your deployment in a single, centralized location.

Perform complex searches/filters through your entire deployment and share the result through a unique URL.

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## Familiar experience and tighter security controls

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### Centralized Terraform Provider

JAAS can make use of the Juju Terraform provider to apply plans to all managed controllers. The provider supports OAuth client credentials authentication and its access is controlled by the authorization system.

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### SSH Proxy (Coming soon)

Administrators can use JAAS to SSH into all units of managed controllers, reducing the need to grant access to vast areas of the network.

SSH access can be granted through a fine-grained entitlement and session logs are kept in a tamper-proof audit log.

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### Single sign-on (SSO)

JAAS supports integration with external identity providers through OIDC, enforcing strong authentication on both the CLI and the web dashboard.

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## JAAS is available through Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu Pro is Canonical's comprehensive subscription for open source security, support, and compliance.

Ubuntu Pro allows you to deploy JAAS on your infrastructure with long-term support and security maintenance for all workloads modeled by Juju. It provides:

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* JAAS charms and sample Terraform plan
* Access to our world-class technical team and knowledge base
* Security patching for all your software, for up to 15 years
* Option of a dedicated Canonical support engineer on your premises
* 24/7 phone, portal, and email support (optional)

[Get JAAS with Ubuntu Pro](https://ubuntu.com/pro)

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## Canonical products are trusted by 10,000+ engineers at

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## Learn more about Juju

### Connect with the community

[Charmhub chat](https://matrix.to/#/#charmhub:ubuntu.com)

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[Discourse forum](https://discourse.charmhub.io/)

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### Contact us

[Talk to a Canonical expert](https://canonical.com/contact-us)

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### Read more

[How Juju works](https://canonical.com/juju/why-juju)

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[Juju documentation](https://canonical.com/juju/docs)

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[Charm SDK documentation](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/juju/3.6/howto/manage-charms/#build-a-charm)

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[What is a software operator?](https://ubuntu.com/engage/kubernetes-operators-explained)

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[Software operators explained](https://ubuntu.com/engage/kubernetes-operators-explained-whitepaper)

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