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Juju is adapting the way operation engineers manage their homelab applications. Juju is an operator orchestration engine that provides a streamlined approach for handling the deployment, integration, and lifecycle management of applications while adhering to industry best practices. However, web application developers face a significant learning curve: They must familiarize themselves with Python, the Juju operator framework, and the "charm" ecosystem when they create a Juju operator for their application. To bridge the gap, we developed a “fast track” approach to the charming journey. The fast track, called paas-charm, is a framework built around 12-factor principles that enables Flask, Django, FastAPI, Go, ExpressJS, and Spring Boot developers to set up a fully integrated and observable Kubernetes environment for their applications. This approach makes Juju more accessible to developers of all experience levels by eliminating the need to master charming.

In this talk, we will introduce the fast track approach for onboarding a software application into the Juju ecosystem. Using popular homelab apps as an example, we will walk through the steps to deploy an app using Juju, showing how straightforward it is to create light and secure container images, initialize, and operate homelab applications. By the end of the talk, attendees will have a clear understanding of the fast track approach, its built-in integrations, the development process from source to deployment and beyond.