Udi Nachmany, director of Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud at Canonical, has announced the release of a new version of Juju, an open-source, solution-driven orchestration tool for Ubuntu Linux.

According to the announcement and the official release notes, Juju 1.23.3 is quite a major version that packs a lot of goodies for those of you who want to scale and manage environments on any cloud without too much hassle.

Prominent features of Juju 1.23.3 include support for Google Compute Engine (GCE), support for the systemd init system, support for Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), new charm actions, as well as better proxy support for restrictive networks.

Additionally, the recently announced Juju release brings a new style restore, new messages, new blocks, and experimental support for Service Leader Elections, as well as addressable LXC containers and KVM instances on Ubuntu MAAS and AWS.

"On a related note, if you’re using Google Cloud Platform you’ve probably taken a look at the sleek Cloud Launcher Google have released recently. And if you looked closely, you also noticed that you can now spin up your Ubuntu VMs using this very friendly UI," says Udi Nachmany.