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Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation?

Wish you could just tell folks to just conjure-up your project? As if it was a magical spell?

Hear about the latest platform but don’t have time to figure out how to begin to deploy it just to give it a try?

Conjure-up is a power tool for getting users using Big Software

The Ubuntu Solutions Engineering team is pleased to announce the first pre-release of conjure-up 2.0!

Conjure-up lets you summon up big-software as a “spell” – a model of a software stack, including all the extra know-how to get you from bits on disk to a fully usable, configured, related deployment. Start using big software instead of learning how to deploy it.

Want OpenStack? Done, no problem.
What about Big Data? Like magic.
Deep Learning? Yep, just like that.
Kubernetes? Like butter.
Seems simple? It is, with conjure-up.

But wait, that sounds way too easy. What’s the catch?

After picking a spell, conjure-up presents you with a list of targets to deploy to including:

Major public clouds like EC2, Azure or GCE
A local (and super fast) deployment with LXD containers
Bare metal in a MAAS cluster
From there conjure-up can work in two ways:

Walkthrough mode: where each spell will present you with a series of panels describing software components and their associated configurations. Users can accept the defaults or modify as needed to fit their particular use case.
Default (headless) mode: where a spell can be deployed with all default options, placement and relations bypassing all the walkthrough panels.

Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format, enabling a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device. This community is working at snapcraft.io to provide a single publication mechanism for any software in any Linux environment. This release quotes Dell, Samsung, the Linux Foundation, The Document Foundation, Krita, Mycroft, Horizon Computing, contributors to Arch, Debian, OpenWrt, Ubuntu, and several of their related distributions.

Snaps now work natively on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu. They are currently being validated on CentOS, Elementary, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, OpenWrt and RHEL, and are easy to enable on other Linux distributions.

Together, these distributions represent the vast majority of common Linux usage on the desktop, server and cloud. A snap package is easy to create and offers significant security benefits, greatly simplifying third-party Linux app distribution.