Simplicity, stability and security
No devops tool is as simple to use as Juju. Juju provides operators with full control over their deployment while introducing minimal cognitive overhead. Deployments managed by Juju are stable and resilient.
Always optimal configuration
Applications deployed with Juju are never mis-configured, irrespective of their scale or hosting environment. Typos cannot interrupt service. Secrets are never leaked. Juju’s relations allow applications to automatically apply and update their configuration. As an application’s scale changes, so too does the application’s configuration.
End-to-end encryption
It is standard practice to encrypt communications between operators and machines managed by a devops tool. Juju goes further. It sets up a private Certificate Authority so that all communication between units and applications via relations through the cluster is also encrypted end-to-end.
Higher-level thinking
Juju supports your team’s effort to model its software deployment. When describing your stack to your colleagues, it’s common to create a drawing on a whiteboard with boxes and lines between them. This view is what Juju allows you to retain, irrespective of the underlying complexity.
Enterprise-critical features
Juju is CTO-friendly. Software vendors and distributors may require that users of their software agree to terms and conditions before their application can be deployed. They can use Juju as a software delivery channel, irrespective of their licencing model. Juju includes support for subscription budgets, automated SLA management and fine-grained access control.
Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud by design
Hybrid-cloud architectures allow for more density, more isolation and more burst capacity. Historically, they also imply a significantly higher mental and technical overhead. With Juju, the technical overhead is eliminated and the mental overhead is kept constant.
Software maturity
We’ve been in the game a long time. Canonical has been developing the current version of Juju since 2012. Every release has incorporated experience gathered from the field. Don’t risk your business on a tool that’s unproven.
I’m aiming to get this up on the Ubuntu blog.
