Take control of your large-scale Juju deployments
Juju as a service (JAAS) provides a single location to interact, manage and audit your charmed applications using a dashboard or Juju CLI commands.
Main JAAS components
JIMM
The Juju Infinite Model Manager is the backend service responsible for managing Juju controllers. Admins can interact with Jimm through the same Juju cli and Terraform provider.
Dashboard
A graphical user interface to simplify common administrative operations.
Why use JAAS?
Have to manage multiple Juju controllers
JAAS simplifies the provisioning and lifecycle management of controllers and charms at scale, automating activities like model migrations and controller upgrades
Need to meet tighter security and compliance requirements
JAAS offers additional security features like fine grained access control, an SSH proxy to reduce the attack surface area and comprehensive auditing functionalities
Prefer to interact with your system with a web interface
The dashboard offer a simplified way for administrators to perform common administrative operations and monitor the state of the deployment
Enhanced control and visibility
for your Juju deployment
JAAS is your centralised enterprise control plane for Juju deployments.
With JAAS you can:
Drill down to view the details of everything that is deployed inside a model, such as applications, integrations, units, and more.
Execute Juju action from the UI and view the resulting logs to confirm their status.
Perform common administrative operations and apply machine configurations.
Onboard controllers and add, remove or manage user access to models and controllers.
Access the logs from your deployment in a single, centralised location.
Perform complex searches/filters through your entire deployment and share the result through a unique URL.
Familiar experience and tighter
security controls
Centralised Terraform Provider
JAAS can make use of the Juju Terraform provider to apply plans to all managed controllers. The provider supports Oauth client credentials authentication and its access is controlled by the authorisation system.
SSH Proxy
Administrators can use JAAS to SSH into all units of managed controllers, reducing the need to grant access to vast areas of the network. SSH access can be granted through a fine grained entitlement and session logs are kept in a tamper proof audit log.
Single sign on (SSO)
JAAS supports integration with external identity providers through OIDC, enforcing strong authentication on both the cli and the web dashboard
Shallow learning curve
Users who are familiar with Juju will feel right at home with JAAS. Because JAAS can be can be controlled through the Juju cli and Terraform provider, administrators can get productive in no time.
JAAS is available through
Ubuntu Pro
You can deploy JAAS on your infrastructure with an Ubuntu Pro subscription Ubuntu Pro is a comprehensive subscription from Canonical which includes:
- JAAS charms and sample Terraform plan
- Access to our world-class technical team and knowledge base
- Security patching for all your software
- Option of a dedicated Canonical support engineer on your premises
- 24/7 phone, portal and email support (optional)
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