Availability of alpha "Easy Juju on Azure" disk image

[Samuel Cozannet]

Hi All,

Following Andrew's test, I just released an upgrade. The changelog is:

* Timer on page refresh is now 5sec instead of 1, which gives more time to
upload the file.
* There is a lock mechanism. It's no more possible to have 2 concurrent
bootstrap processes
* Also, even if the bootstrap process is done an you upload a new file, it
will not bootstrap another environment and change your configuration. You
need to delete the previous Azure Settings before you can spin a second
environment.

The upload of the new image is at ~50%, and already completed for North and
West Europe.

I hope you like it!
Best,
Sam


Best,
Samuel

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Samuel Cozannet <
samuel.cozannet at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> First of all, thanks for having taken the time to try it out! Much
> appreciated.
>
> Thx for the comments. Point taken. As Marco mentioned this alpha will now
> be productized and maintained properly on Azure. They will get a whole lot
> better very soon.
>
> In the meantime, if you add a comment on the vm depot to notify the user
> not to try twice times, I think that would help and avoid similar issues
> for others.
>
> A quick win I can think of is also
> - timer to 5s
> - add a lock file to avoid double execution.
>
> Best,
> Samuel
> Le 11 févr. 2015 03:37, "Andrew Wilkins" <andrew.wilkins at canonical.com> a
> écrit :
>
> 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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