Juju vs Waldur
Juju
canonical.com
Waldur
waldur.comSide by side
| Figure | Juju | Waldur |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Cloud Management Software | 8.6 (#6) | 7.1 (#27) |
| Marketplace | Charmhub is a curated marketplace for charms that can be integrated into infrastructure. | Its built-in marketplace lets end users browse and consume services with approval workflows, usage-based billing, and resource lifecycle management. |
| Purpose | Juju is an open source orchestration engine for deploying, integrating, and managing application lifecycles at any scale using charms. | Waldur manages private clouds, public clouds, and HPC centers, automating OpenStack and Slurm with billing, self-service, and a support desk. |
| Security | Canonical says JAAS can protect deployments by providing a smaller attack area. | The production checklist tells operators to replace the default secret key, disable default staff accounts, and ensure database backups are stored persistently. |
| Support | Juju's page links to a Matrix chat, a Discourse forum, and a form to talk to a Canonical expert. | Waldur offers professional software support for self-hosted installations with multiple support tiers and varying SLAs. |
Plans
In their own words
Juju
Juju is Canonical’s open source orchestration engine for deploying, connecting and managing application lifecycles with charms. A charm packages reusable business logic to automate parts of an application’s life. Juju treats application integrations as part of lifecycle management and can manage software across public clouds, Kubernetes, virtual machines and bare metal. It can apply networking and configuration changes between applications even when they run on different clouds. Charmhub is a curated marketplace with charms for tools such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Kubeflow, Apache Spark, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Vault, Traefik and Landscape. For enterprise use, JAAS provides a central control plane that can manage hundreds of Juju controllers. It adds fine-grained access controls, auditing and support for external identity providers through OIDC and single sign-on in the CLI and web dashboard. JAAS also has a graphical administration and monitoring dashboard. Juju is free and open source; listed platforms include Linux, macOS, Windows, API and self-hosted environments.