How to deploy to a specific availability zone

See also: Zone

If the backing cloud substrate supports multiple availability zones, users can explicitly specify which availability zone (or zones) to use when spinning up machines during a deploy operation. This can be done via a constraint or a placement directive.

Contents:

• Use a constraint
• Use a placement directive

Use a constraint

See also: Constraint, juju bootstrap, juju deploy, juju add-machine

One way to select specific availability zones is via constraints. This can be done by running juju bootstrap, juju deploy, or juju add-machine with the --constraints option with the zones key.

For instance, here we create two Trusty machines in a certain zone:

juju add-machine -n 2 --series trusty --constraints zones=us-east-1a

We then deploy an application on two new machines in a different zone:

juju deploy redis -n 2 --constraints zones=us-east-1c

Finally, in order to deploy units to the two empty machines in the initial zone we first change the application constraint default (set implicitly with the deploy command):

juju set-constraints redis zones=us-east-1a
juju add-unit redis -n 2

When multiple (comma separated) values are used, the constraint is interpreted as being a range of zones where a machine must end up in.

Use a placement directive

See also: Placement directive, juju bootstrap, juju deploy, juju add-machine, juju add-unit, juju enable-ha

Another way to select a specific availability zone is via a placement directive.

To do this, run juju bootstrap, juju deploy, juju add-machine , juju add-unit , or juju enable-ha with the --to option and the zone key. For example:

juju bootstrap --to zone=us-east-1b

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