In a matter of fact, I've installed also the other flavor of it, just to make sure I am not hitting any *alpha* bug.

So, let's remove the *snap* version of *conjure-up* and try the one from the repository:

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo snap remove conjure-up
conjure-up removed
```

As you can see it has been successfully removed:

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo snap list
Name  Version  Rev   Developer  Notes
core  16-2     1689  canonical  -
```

Now, let's see what version of *conjure-up* is avail in our repos (*currently running 17.04*):

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo apt-cache madison conjure-up
conjure-up |      2.0.1 | http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 Packages
conjure-up |      2.0.1 | http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe i386 Packages
```

So, the *2.0.1* seems to be quite outdated compared to 2.3.alpha, but anyway, let's give it a shot:

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo apt-get install conjure-up
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  bsdtar distro-info dns-root-data dnsmasq-base ebtables git git-core git-man javascript-common jq juju-2.0 libarchive-tools liberror-perl libgolang-1.7-std1 libgolang-github-gorilla-context1 libgolang-github-gorilla-mux1 libgolang-github-gorilla-websocket1
  libgolang-github-gosexy-gettext1 libgolang-github-mattn-go-colorable1 libgolang-github-mattn-go-sqlite3-1 libgolang-github-olekukonko-tablewriter1 libgolang-github-pborman-uuid1 libgolang-gocapability1 libgolang-golang-x-crypto1 libgolang-golang-x-net1
  libgolang-golang-x-text1 libgolang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-1 libgolang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-tomb.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-yaml.v2-1 libgolang-goprotobuf1 libgolang-petname1 libjq1 libjs-jquery libjs-sphinxdoc
  libjs-underscore liblxc1 libonig4 lxc-common lxcfs lxd lxd-client python3-bson python3-bson-ext python3-petname python3-prettytable python3-progressbar python3-requests-oauthlib python3-termcolor python3-urwid python3-ws4py uidmap
Suggested packages:
  shunit2 git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-arch git-cvs git-mediawiki git-svn apache2 | lighttpd | httpd criu lxd-tools python3-cherrypy3 | python3-tornado
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bsdtar conjure-up distro-info dns-root-data dnsmasq-base ebtables git git-core git-man javascript-common jq juju-2.0 libarchive-tools liberror-perl libgolang-1.7-std1 libgolang-github-gorilla-context1 libgolang-github-gorilla-mux1 libgolang-github-gorilla-websocket1
  libgolang-github-gosexy-gettext1 libgolang-github-mattn-go-colorable1 libgolang-github-mattn-go-sqlite3-1 libgolang-github-olekukonko-tablewriter1 libgolang-github-pborman-uuid1 libgolang-gocapability1 libgolang-golang-x-crypto1 libgolang-golang-x-net1
  libgolang-golang-x-text1 libgolang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-1 libgolang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-tomb.v2-1 libgolang-gopkg-yaml.v2-1 libgolang-goprotobuf1 libgolang-petname1 libjq1 libjs-jquery libjs-sphinxdoc
  libjs-underscore liblxc1 libonig4 lxc-common lxcfs lxd lxd-client python3-bson python3-bson-ext python3-petname python3-prettytable python3-progressbar python3-requests-oauthlib python3-termcolor python3-urwid python3-ws4py uidmap
0 upgraded, 54 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 48,1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 264 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
```

As you can see, *lxd* seems to be a valid dependency in this case, so it makes sense that it is going to be installed. After the installation got finished, there was some kind of interesting output during the *post installation scripts* of the individual packages that were installed (as part of the *conjure-up* dependencies):

*ebtables*
```bash
Setting up ebtables (2.0.10.4-3.5ubuntu1.17.04.1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ebtables.service → /lib/systemd/system/ebtables.service.
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
```
^ Do you think I have to file a bug for this warning? Seems pretty unharmed, but it's kind of ugly, isn't?

*lxcfs*
```bash
Setting up lxcfs (2.0.7-0ubuntu1~17.04.1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lxcfs.service → /lib/systemd/system/lxcfs.service.
```

*lxd*
```bash
Setting up lxd (2.12-0ubuntu3) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lxd-containers.service → /lib/systemd/system/lxd-containers.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/lxd.socket → /lib/systemd/system/lxd.socket.
Setting up lxd dnsmasq configuration.

To go through the initial LXD configuration, run: lxd init
```

*conjure-up*
```bash
Setting up conjure-up (2.0.1) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/conjure-up.service → /lib/systemd/system/conjure-up.service.
```

So, let's check if the aforementioned systemd-services are active or not:

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo systemctl status ebtables.service
● ebtables.service - ebtables ruleset management
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ebtables.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-06-20 00:29:42 CEST; 8min ago
 Main PID: 3982 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ebtables.service

Jun 20 00:29:42 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Starting ebtables ruleset management...
Jun 20 00:29:42 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Started ebtables ruleset management.

drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo systemctl status lxcfs.service
● lxcfs.service - FUSE filesystem for LXC
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lxcfs.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-06-20 00:29:43 CEST; 7min ago
     Docs: man:lxcfs(1)
 Main PID: 4050 (lxcfs)
   CGroup: /system.slice/lxcfs.service
           └─4050 /usr/bin/lxcfs /var/lib/lxcfs/

Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   1: fd:   6: freezer
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   2: fd:   7: pids
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   3: fd:   8: cpuset
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   4: fd:   9: perf_event
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   5: fd:  10: memory
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   6: fd:  11: blkio
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   7: fd:  12: net_cls,net_prio
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   8: fd:  13: devices
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:   9: fd:  14: cpu,cpuacct
Jun 20 00:29:43 ubuntu1704 lxcfs[4050]:  10: fd:  15: name=systemd

drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo systemctl status lxd-containers.service
● lxd-containers.service - LXD - container startup/shutdown
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lxd-containers.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-06-20 00:29:45 CEST; 9min ago
     Docs: man:lxd(1)
 Main PID: 7192 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      CPU: 30ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/lxd-containers.service

Jun 20 00:29:45 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Starting LXD - container startup/shutdown...
Jun 20 00:29:45 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Started LXD - container startup/shutdown.

drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ sudo systemctl status conjure-up.service
● conjure-up.service - conjure-up - network bridge
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/conjure-up.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-06-20 00:29:46 CEST; 9min ago
     Docs: man:conjure-up(1)
 Main PID: 7379 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      CPU: 6ms
   CGroup: /system.slice/conjure-up.service

Jun 20 00:29:46 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Starting conjure-up - network bridge...
Jun 20 00:29:46 ubuntu1704 systemd[1]: Started conjure-up - network bridge.
```

Well, *all* of them seems to be both *active* and *enabled*. So, let's run `conjure-up` again:

```bash
drpaneas@ubuntu1704:~$ conjure-up
[info] No spells found, syncing from registry, please wait.

             Choose from this list of recommended spells

                                                         Apache Hadoop + Apache Kafka Cluster
                                                         Apache Hadoop + Apache Spark Cluster
                                                         Apache Hadoop Cluster
                                                         Apache Hadoop/Spark/Zeppelin Realtime Syslog Analytics
                                                         Apache Spark Cluster
                                                         HA Ghost with MySQL
                                                         Kubernetes Core
                                                         Landscape
                                                         OpenStack with NovaKVM
                                                         OpenStack with NovaLXD
                                                         The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes
```

As it works perfectly. So, it seems that the *snap* version of *conjure-up* is kind of *broken*.