I was curious how easy it would be to get the published parse-server-example to run with Juju. The end result is that there is a new juju charm named parse-server available.^*

Deploying parse-server is as easy as running these commands in a bootstrapped juju environment. This means that it can run ANYWHERE.

juju deploy cs:~evarlast/trusty/parse-server-0
juju deploy mongodb
juju add-relation parse-server mongodb
juju expose parse-server

You’ll then be able to use the http api at port 1337.

For example:

curl -X POST -H “X-Parse-Application-Id: myAppId” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d ‘{“whatever”:”data”}’ 10.0.3.247:1337/parse/functions/hello

If you wish to take a look at this charm, its in the charmed branch of my fork of the parse-server-example. I do not recommend using this charm as an example of writing a good production charm. This is an example of a quick and dirty hack of a charm which happens to work.

Part of what makes Juju awesome is the magic of application modeling. While my hack of a parse-server charm isn’t production ready, it is building on a very production ready mongodb charm, which can be scaled out and made HA very easily. Charms are reusable open source ops. The mongodb ops have been captured in the mongodb charm. Any required parse-server ops need to be capture in a parse-server charm. The only ones captured so far are configuring the mongodb relation. While its a hack of a demo charm, it is a start.

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