Canonical today announced multiple signatories to its Juju Charm
Partner Program (CPP), adding leading storage and networking solutions
to the catalogue of public Juju charms. New additions include
Nuage Networks from Nokia,
CloudBase Solutions,
Midokura and
Quobyte.
The emergence of "big software" - complex topologies of software
components that must be managed at scale in dynamic environments - has
raised the importance of operations in a hybrid cloud world. Integration
and operations now consume a significant share of IT budgets.
"Big software is a phase change in operations caused by rising scale
and complexity," said Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical.
"Model-driven operations with Juju use shared, open source operations
code for common components, so companies can focus precious resources on
creating software that is unique to their business."
Canonical's award-winning model-driven operations system Juju
enables reusable, open source operations across hybrid cloud and
physical infrastructure. Integration and operations are encoded in
"charms" by vendors and the community of experts familiar with an app.
These charms are reused by ops teams as standardised operations code
that evolves along with the software itself.
"Eliminating the friction of software evaluation, integration,
operations and support is a great outcome for both buyers and sellers of
software" said Stefan Johansson, Global Software Alliances Director,
Canonical.
The growing use of Juju for large-scale OpenStack operations,
highlighted in the latest user survey by the OpenStack Foundation, has
increased the value of software-defined networking and storage charms.
"With this MidoNet Charm, we are delighted to further our integration
with Ubuntu, the leader in global OpenStack deployments," said Adam
Johnson, Midokura VP of Business. "Just like MidoNet, Charms improve the
deployment and manageability of any Ubuntu OpenStack deployment. The
past year has seen a steady growth in Midokura's technical, marketing
and sales collaboration with the team at Canonical, and we look forward
to more joint successes in the coming year."
"Nuage Networks' participation in the Charm Partner Program and
development of our own Juju charms will automate deployment of our
Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) for our service provider and
enterprise customers. This is an important milestone in our partnership
with Canonical to offer joint solutions that help customers deploy their
business applications quickly, securely and at scale," said Charles
Ferland, Vice President, Business Development, Nuage Networks from
Nokia.
Rapid growth in demand for cost-effective storage underpins the
development of several software-defined storage charms, both for
OpenStack deployments and as standalone large-scale storage on commodity
servers and disks.
"Juju Charms are a great technology for modelling and deploying
complex distributed systems. With the Quobyte charms, we can deploy our
data center file system in a versatile and simple way for standalone
installations as well as integrated block and file storage for
OpenStack," said Felix Hupfeld, CTO, Quobyte Inc.
Charms are cross-platform, enabling the seamless integration of
workloads running natively on both Windows and Linux, on both cloud and
physical infrastructure.
Alessandro Pilotti, Cloudbase Solutions CEO, said: "Juju's ability to
implement profound change at scale for elaborate enterprise
environments is truly unique and powerful. We are honored to join
Canonical's Charm Partner Programme, and have the opportunity to bring
our catalog of enterprise Windows Charms, and our custom enterprise Juju Charm development service to a vibrant and growing ecosystem."
Breakout companies Treasure Data, Datafellas, Elastisys, LeoStream, Listeq and Caringo
also recently signed to Canonical's CPP in order to speed the adoption
of their solutions in big data and high-performance computing.
"The collection of public charms is a fast path to successful
operations in an increasingly complex world" said Milan Vaclavik, who
leads business development for the Charm Partner Program at Canonical.
"Whether you want to spin up an OpenStack cloud or manage a big data
cluster, whether you are interested in container orchestration or
machine learning, the Juju charm store includes open source and
proprietary solutions that dramatically simplify operations for those
classes of big software."