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Jorge O. Castro

Jorge O. Castro

43 posts

Cloud Community Liaison

Jorge has been working on Ubuntu since 2004 and is currently helping devops organizations get up and running on Kubernetes , an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.


Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

Cloud and server Tutorials

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu ...


Jorge O. Castro
31 July 2015

Conducting Systems & Services: An Evening About Orchestration

Cloud and server Videos

Orchestration of containers is one of the hottest topics in devops. Prior to Dockercon this year we thought it would be a great idea to bring in some of the thought leaders in this area and have a discussion of the challenges that face devops today and how solving large scale problems can help drive ...


Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads, preached a lot of good J ...


Jorge O. Castro
3 June 2015

New features in Juju 1.23

Cloud and server Article

A little over a month ago Juju 1.23 hit the prime time and brought with it a flurry of bug fixes and new features. Below are a highlight of the exciting new things Juju can do as of 1.23, or feel free to dig into the release notes for all the details. Support for Google ...


Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

Cloud and server Case study

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire datacentres in shipping cont ...


Jorge O. Castro
17 December 2014

Using Flannel and etcd for LXC container networking

Cloud and server Videos

In this demo Charles Butler shows you how to use Flannel and etcd to network LXC containers. This allows you to Juju deploy to multiple hosts instead of one machine. ...


Jorge O. Castro
8 December 2014

Charm Workshop: Writing Charms for Restrictive Networks

Cloud and server Videos

In an ideal world your systems can reach any internet resource for whatever they need for deployment. However the real world is different, and many production networks have proxies or other restricted network policies that make writing charms challenging. In this charm school Matt Bruzek highlights some of the methods you can use to make ...


Jorge O. Castro
21 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Debugging Juju Hooks

Cloud and server Videos

In this charm school Charles Butler and Corey Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Corey introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier. Corey’s debug hook script, DHX, is available here: https://github.com/juju/plugins ...


Jorge O. Castro
18 November 2014

Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

Cloud and server Videos

As part of the Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming. ...


Jorge O. Castro
24 October 2014

Getting Started with Juju Relations

Cloud and server Videos

Relations are a very important part of what Juju does. Automating installation is a solved problem, but the ability for Juju Charms to connect services together via relationships is one of our most powerful features. ...


Jorge O. Castro
18 October 2014

Charm Workshop: Charm Testing

Cloud and server Videos

What is bundle tester? How to set up and run, how to write tests, and how Canonical automates the running of these tests for you. ...