Documentation

This section lists available high visibility documentation resources for everything Ubuntu that’s cloud related

  • Juju Documentation is the official documentation for juju, the Ubuntu Cloud and physical-servers, service orchestration framework
  • Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure Installation guide
  • Ubuntu Cloud Guest Images provides information on locating, building, customizing and booting the official Ubuntu Cloud images provided by Canonical
  • Cloud Init is a technology innovated by Ubuntu that enables a machine to customize itself (install software, add ssh keys, run arbitrary scripts) as it first boots on a cloud such as the EC2 cloud. The cloud used needs to have a way to pass the arbitrary user-data to the booting image
  • EC2 Starters Guide provides getting started information on running Ubuntu in the EC2 cloud
  • FAQs are a collection of Frequently Asked Questions relating to general Cloud topics, Ubuntu Cloud and running Ubuntu over EC2

The collection of documentation and tools available will only grow with time. If there’s anything you’d like to add, feel free to reach us immediately over IRC and tell us all about it