I have also tested and reproduced on Azure, logs below: garym@latitude:~$ juju status --format=yaml model: name: bigtop controller: osd-nordics-azure cloud: azure region: northeurope version: 2.0-rc1 machines: "0": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:14:37+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:41+01:00 series: trusty "1": juju-status: current: started since: 22 Sep 2016 16:24:54+01:00 version: 2.0-rc1 dns-name: 52.169.11.116 instance-id: machine-1 machine-status: current: running since: 22 Sep 2016 16:24:49+01:00 series: trusty hardware: arch=amd64 cores=1 mem=1792M root-disk=30720M "2": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:11:26+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:46+01:00 series: trusty "3": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:12:03+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:49+01:00 series: trusty "4": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:12:45+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:51+01:00 series: trusty "5": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:13:22+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:53+01:00 series: trusty "6": juju-status: current: down message: agent is not communicating with the server since: 22 Sep 2016 16:13:59+01:00 instance-id: pending machine-status: current: pending since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:56+01:00 series: trusty applications: client: charm: cs:trusty/hadoop-client-3 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: hadoop-client charm-rev: 3 can-upgrade-to: cs:trusty/hadoop-client-5 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:40+01:00 relations: hadoop: - plugin units: client/0: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:40+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:40+01:00 machine: "0" ganglia: charm: cs:trusty/ganglia-2 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: ganglia charm-rev: 2 exposed: false application-status: current: unknown since: 22 Sep 2016 16:27:04+01:00 relations: node: - ganglia-node units: ganglia/0: workload-status: current: unknown since: 22 Sep 2016 16:27:04+01:00 juju-status: current: idle since: 29 Sep 2016 06:14:57+01:00 version: 2.0-rc1 machine: "1" open-ports: - 80/tcp public-address: 52.169.11.116 ganglia-node: charm: cs:trusty/ganglia-node-2 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: ganglia-node charm-rev: 2 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:07+01:00 relations: juju-info: - namenode - resourcemanager - slave node: - ganglia subordinate-to: - namenode - resourcemanager - slave namenode: charm: cs:~bigdata-dev/trusty/apache-bigtop-namenode-13 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: apache-bigtop-namenode charm-rev: 13 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:45+01:00 relations: datanode: - slave juju-info: - ganglia-node namenode: - plugin - resourcemanager units: namenode/0: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:45+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:45+01:00 machine: "2" plugin: charm: cs:~bigdata-dev/trusty/apache-bigtop-plugin-9 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: apache-bigtop-plugin charm-rev: 9 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:19+01:00 relations: hadoop-plugin: - client namenode: - namenode resourcemanager: - resourcemanager subordinate-to: - client resourcemanager: charm: cs:~bigdata-dev/trusty/apache-bigtop-resourcemanager-12 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: apache-bigtop-resourcemanager charm-rev: 12 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:47+01:00 relations: juju-info: - ganglia-node namenode: - namenode nodemanager: - slave resourcemanager: - plugin units: resourcemanager/0: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:47+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:47+01:00 machine: "3" slave: charm: cs:~bigdata-dev/trusty/apache-bigtop-slave-11 series: trusty os: ubuntu charm-origin: jujucharms charm-name: apache-bigtop-slave charm-rev: 11 exposed: false application-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:50+01:00 relations: juju-info: - ganglia-node namenode: - namenode resourcemanager: - resourcemanager units: slave/0: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:50+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:50+01:00 machine: "4" slave/1: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:52+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:52+01:00 machine: "5" slave/2: workload-status: current: waiting message: waiting for machine since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:55+01:00 juju-status: current: allocating since: 22 Sep 2016 16:09:55+01:00 machine: "6" ubuntu@machine-0:~$ sudo cat /var/log/juju/machine-0.log |pastebinit http://paste.ubuntu.com/23249815/