Managing services / juju

On 27 November 2011 15:13, Thomas Leonard <talex5 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> We need something to manage services in general (0service). Also, it
> should really handle dependencies between services: e.g. to run
> Drupal, you also need a MySQL database (possibly on a different
> machine).
>
> Basically, I want to write a configuration saying something like:
>
> host1:
>   db_service = MySQL("/var/lib/mysql/data")
>   drupal_db = db_service.database("drupal")
>
> host2:
>   drupal = Drupal(drupal_db)
>   Apache({"/drupal": drupal})
>
> and have it deploy and maintain the appropriate services across the
> two machines.

After spending a bit more time searching, I found Juju, which looks
pretty interesting:

  https://juju.ubuntu.com/

It's aimed at "cloud" deployments (managing services across multiple
VMs, allocating new VMs as required), though it can be tested on a
local machine (creating an LXC container for each service). It's not
ready for production use yet, but there are lots of interesting ideas
and surely potential for use with 0install...