Skip to main content

Your submission was sent successfully! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates from Canonical and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

Thank you for contacting us. A member of our team will be in touch shortly. Close

  1. Blog
  2. Article

Canonical
on 27 August 2013

Juju Charm Championship expands with more categories, more prizes


The Charm Championship is underway, but there’s still plenty of time to get involved. Today we’re announcing the addition of three new entry categories, each with a $10,000 prize on offer for the most innovative bundle of charms.

The full list of categories is now as follows:

  • NEW! Continuous deployment – a bundle of charms that allows startups to be immediately productive, continually launch new features, and scale effortlessly

  • NEW! Media – a bundle of charms that brings value to media content providers, distributors, and associated mass medium technologies

  • NEW! Telco – a bundle of charms that brings value to telecommunications service providers and telecommunications infrastructure

  • High Availability – a bundle of charms for HA-enabled services to accomplish a task

  • Data science/mining – a bundle of charms for data mining and “big data” analysis

  • Monitoring – a bundle of charms that enables new monitoring solutions for existing services

What is the Charm Championship?

It’s a competition in which contestants use Juju, the service orchestration tool from Ubuntu, to wrap an application into a self-contained, reusable charm bundle — essentially a blueprint for how the services in an environment should connect together.

In each category, we’re looking for a charm bundle that really innovates, bringing simplicity and speed to an otherwise complex task. A high quality bundle will reflect best practices of services that run in production and solve “infrastructure gunk” and solve real world problems. The great thing about a charm bundle is that it can then be shared with the community and re-used anywhere, by anyone. That means the smallest start-up can benefit from the same easy deployment as the biggest companies. It’s out-of-the-box infrastructure deployment.

Here’s what a simple bundle looks like. In this example of a Rails application we’ve connected Logstash logging and Nagios monitoring to the application and added a PostgreSQL database.

This simple stack has other things it needs to be considered production ready. It needs a set of backup charms to ensure data reliability. It’s going to need load balancing, HA, and more redundancy in each layer of the stack. That’s what we want to see in entries:  a “magic formula” bundle that gets people most of the way there.

Prizes

Each winner will receive $10,000 and the chance to participate in a joint marketing campaign to promote their charmed solution to users. With 6 categories this means $60,000 in grand prizes to be won. In addition, charm maintainers whose charms are used in winning bundles can win $200 each time their charm is used in a winning bundle.

To give you time to take full advantage of the new categories, we’re extending the competition until 22nd October 2013. All the details are on Github.

Need help getting started?

Join us on #juju on Freenode or join us on the mailing list.

Also, don’t forget to register so we can contact you regarding important updates and to notify you if you are a lucky finalist!

Related posts


Serdar Vural
20 September 2024

Canonical and OpenAirInterface to collaborate on open source telecom network infrastructure

5G Article

Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI) to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN). Canonical will bring automation in software lifecycle management to OAI’s RAN stack, alongside additional infrastructure capabilities. This will be ...


Michael C. Jaeger
29 April 2024

Kubernetes backups just got easier with the CloudCasa charm from Catalogic

Charms Article

For a native integration for Canonical’s Kubernetes platform, Juju was the perfect fit, and the charm makes consuming CloudCasa seamless for users. ...


Michael C. Jaeger
23 February 2024

What is a Kubernetes operator?

Charms Article

Kubernetes is the open source, industry-standard platform for deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications – and applications on Kubernetes are easier with operators. ...