Availability of alpha "Easy Juju on Azure" disk image

[Marco Ceppi]

Hey Andrew,

I agree with you on the feedback, since it's an HTML page at the moment
it's hard to incorporate those items, but I've forked the repo and started
building a lightweight Python app to provide that feedback to the user.

Marco

On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 9:37:48 PM Andrew Wilkins <
andrew.wilkins at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Samuel,
>
> Looks neat. A few things:
>  1. Once the VM is ready, the entire landing page keeps refreshing at 1s
> intervals. That doesn't leave a lot of time to add the .publishsettings
> file and upload.
>  2. There's no feedback to say whether or not the .publishsetttings file
> has been uploaded, and whether bootstrapping is underway. I guess I did it
> twice because of point 1, because now I have two "juju bootstrap" processes
> on the machine :)
>  3. When the GUI eventually came up, it wouldn't accept the password that
> the page displayed. This is related to point 2: the page gave me the link
> to the GUI for one env, and the password for the other.
>
> It'd be great if the "upload credentials" bit greyed out once uploaded,
> and then under "3. Wait for a few minutes..." there was something
> describing the current status. e.g. "Installing Juju", "Deploying Juju GUI".
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Samuel Cozannet <
> samuel.cozannet at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Yesterday we released an alpha of a new Ubuntu image on MS Azure VM
>> Depot: https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/Vhd/Show?vhdId=50248
>>
>> If you use that image and spin a VM with it, you'll be able to upload
>> your Azure .publishsettings file to its web interface. From that moment,
>> the VM will boostrap a Juju environment, install the Juju GUI.
>> The main web page auto refreshes, and presents the link to the Juju GUI
>> with a password when it's ready.
>>
>> The whole process from upload to Juju GUI takes about 10min to complete,
>> and does not require any knowledge of Juju or Ubuntu to start playing.
>> It leaves you with a fully functional Juju environment using your default
>> subscription as your main Azure provider.
>>
>> We hope you enjoy that new and easy way to start with Juju. We aim at
>> making this image available from the Marketplace when we gather enough
>> feedback and fix bugs that remain.
>>
>> The whole code and explanations are available on
>> https://github.com/SaMnCo/juju-azure. Please use that repo to send
>> feedback while we make it better. You can also answer to this thread on the
>> list to ask any question or feature request you may have.
>>
>> Best,
>> Samuel
>>
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