Deploying the Discourse Discussion Platform with Juju Service Orchestration

by Pavel PachkovskijSeptember 3, 2013

This blog post focuses on Juju, the service for building and managing public/private environments, and a Rack charm that simplifies deploying of RoR and Sinatra apps.

Table of Contents

Juju description

With 100+ services ready to deploy, Juju allows for building public/private environments and managing them with only a few commands. You can select a ready system component (called charm) from a special store and start combining the elements to create an environment that you need.

Deploying Discourse

However, what can be done if you need a solution that is not available in the store? We created a Rack charm for Juju that simplifies installation of RoR and Sinatra applications to cloud platforms supported by Juju. In this blog post, we’ll give you a guide on how to deploy Discourse, a next-generation platform for community discussions, using Juju and the Rack charm. To get started, you will need a configured and successfully bootstrapped Juju environment. To proceed with the instructions, check out this GitHub repo. To find out how to add Discourse to your Juju admin console, read the full article.

Alex Khizhniak is Director of Technical Content Strategy at Altoros and a cofounder of a local Java User Group. Managing distributed teams since 2004, he has gained experience as a journalist, an editor-in-chief, a technical writer, a technology evangelist, a project manager, and a product owner. Alex is obsessed with AI/ML, data science, data integration, ETL/DWH, data quality, databases (SQL/NoSQL), big data, IoT, and BI. The articles and industry reports he created or helped to publish reached out to 3,000,000+ tech-savvy readers. Some of the pieces were covered on TechRepublic, ebizQ, NetworkWorld, CIO.com, etc. Find him on Twitter at @alxkh.