What's the future of Juju?

[Mark Ramm-Christensen (Canonical.com)]

Well, I can provide a few things off the top of my head that should help.

   - Canonical is fully committed to Juju as the way we deploy software
   internally, the way we deploy Open Stack clouds for our largest clients
   - Windows workloads are supported in the current beta version of Juju,
   and should after a bit of real-world testing be fully supported in one of
   the next (bi-monthly) production ready releases.
   - CentOS support is nearly feature complete, and should enter a beta
   release of Juju for testing within the next month.  Like windows it will
   flow to a production release after it's had some real-world tests.

There are quite a few big companies working on juju charms.  IBM for
example is delivering quite a few charms and has committed multiple full
time development resources to working with juju.

There are also quite a few other big names working on juju charms -- many
of them in the OpenStack space.  I'll get a list of folks who are already
public about being part of our juju based openstack integration labs for
you as soon as I can.

We also have some big plans for products built on top of juju.  The first
of which is the OpenStack Autopilot which automates the deployment,
scale-out, and management of OpenStack clouds.   But, we are also building
more products on top of Juju right now, and it is core to our future plans
in the cloud.

So, to make a long story short, I think juju is gaining traction with some
big enterprise players, Canonical is fully committed to Juju, and we are
seeing momentum pick up in the marketplace.   So, I personally would
definitely bet on a bright future for Juju.

--Mark Ramm





On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Merlijn Sebrechts <
merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I'm interested in what the future of Juju is. From the small experience
> I've had with it, it seems like a product with a lot of potential. It fills
> a gap in our project that no other technology can fill. Its biggest
> strength is how relations between services are managed. This is something
> that, to my knowledge, does not exist in any tool today. It enables a very
> modular approach and solves a lot of problems we would have with other
> tools.
>
> However, I've also seen some things that worry me. Even after three years,
> there are still a lot of bugs in the project. The documentation is lacking,
> especially in the parts of Juju that are the most competitive. The
> community is also very small. The fact that it can still only manage Ubuntu
> servers worries me too. I could go more into detail here, but I don't think
> it is relevant to this question.
>
> I'm considering starting a big long-term project on top of Juju. The
> project would be very dependent on Juju, so I don't want to do this if
> there is a chance that Juju will be abandoned in 5 years...
>
> What can you tell me about the future of Juju? Things I'm interested in:
>
> - Big companies building services on top of Juju
>
> - Statements of long-term commitment from Canonical
>
> - Usage statistics
>
> - Statements of commitment to support other distro's
>
> - .. or else, signs that Juju doesn't have a bright future.
>
>
> Thanks
>
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