Getting started

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the process of deploying the SMTP Integrator charm. We’ll be deploying the charm on top of Kubernetes although a machine substrate could also be used.

Requirements

You will need:

• A laptop or desktop running Ubuntu (or you can use a VM).
• Juju and Microk8s installed.

Deploy this charm

The charm will the deployed in a new model named smtp-tutorial:

# Add the model
juju add-model smtp-tutorial

# Deploy the charm
juju deploy smtp-integrator

# Provide the mandatory configurations
juju config smtp-integrator host=smtp.example.com

By running juju status --relations the current state of the deployment can be queried, with the charm eventually reaching Active state:

Model           Controller          Cloud/Region        Version  SLA          Timestamp
smtp-tutorial   microk8s-localhost  microk8s/localhost  3.1.6   unsupported  12:54:25+02:00

App              Version  Status  Scale  Charm            Channel  Rev  Address        Exposed  Message
smtp-integrator           active      1  smtp-integrator             0  10.152.183.65  no       

Unit                Workload  Agent  Address     Ports  Message
smtp-integrator/0*  active    idle   10.1.57.14    

Run kubectl get pods -n smtp-tutorial to see the pods that are being created by the charms:

NAME                            READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
modeloperator-d465f6695-zvhk8   1/1     Running   0          2m33s
smtp-integrator-0               1/1     Running   0          99s