Managing services with Juju

In the previous recipe, we learned how to install the Juju service orchestration framework. Now, we will look at how to use Juju to deploy and manage a service.

Getting ready

Make sure you have installed and bootstrapped Juju.

How to do it…

We will deploy a sample WordPress installation with a load balancer. The MySQL service will be used as the database for WordPress. Both services are available in the Juju Charm store.

Follow these steps to manage services with Juju:

  1. Let's start by deploying the WordPress service with juju deploy. This should give you the following output:
    $ juju deploy wordpress
Added charm "cs:trusty/wordpress-4" to the model.
Deploying charm "cs:trusty/wordpress-4" with the charm series "trusty".
  2. Now, ...

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