# Juju > Juju is an open source orchestration engine for deploying, integrating, and managing applications across Kubernetes, VMs, and bare metal using software operators called charms. 2026 CC-BY-SA, Canonical Ltd. ## Pages in this subsection - [Compile and run Juju agents on different architectures](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/juju/4.0/contributor/howto/compile-and-run-juju-agents-on-different-architectures.md): Build and deploy Juju agents across multiple architectures using local simplestreams repositories for cross-platform testing. ## Optional - [Top-level llms.txt](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/juju/4.0/llms.txt): Complete documentation index.