On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Tim Penhey <tim.pen...@canonical.com> wrote:
> I have been wondering for a while how we message to new users. > > I raise this because I see quite a few messages on stack overflow that > go something like this: > > "I'm really new to Juju and I'm trying to set up MaaS." > > I feel that if we are getting to this, we are doing something wrong. > Perhaps we should have better docs around initial evaluation testing? > How do we direct people more to the local provider and manual > provisioning on existing hardware over setting up their own MaaS to try > Juju? > The unfortunate issue is that manual and local both target arbitrary environments, which means they are the least repeatable (local firewall, pre-existing software interference). Getting machine 0 to not special in local provider will help somewhat as would firewall checks, and foreground lxc/lxd image download. In the meantime directing new users to a cloud provider seems best whenever possible. Partly it also depends on their goal, if their intent is to get to an openstack setup, then becoming familiar with maas is also a useful endeavour for which a virtualbox setup is useful. cheers, Kapil ps. Googling getting started with juju brings up this video from two years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h5hgfnZcBQ
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