Charm Tech pulse 2024#13

ironcore864 · 27 June 2024 03:52

Pulse #13 highlights: Pebble’s identity feature is coming soon, a lot of documentation work is done, CI/automated tests are improved, and more.

Ops

Released a new version v2.14.1.
Improvements: clean up after running setup_root_logging in test_log; add checks and log_targets to ops.testing (WIP).
CI: Made update-charm-tests run monthly; PR title validation against conventional commit; added artefact attestation;
Research to extend ops.log to capture warnings and tested this. Not merged since warnings are already in Juju debug-log (although not extremely beautiful).
Worked on the pebble-change-updated-notice spec and the Pebble check events spec.
Reviewed the Pydantic integration spec and came up with an alternative proposal.

Run charm-relation-interfaces on a schedule, including some minor fixes in the dependency. It’s still WIP, need to publish a new version of the dependency and figure out a way to send push notifications.

Significant work on the new identities feature (WIP; see PR 428, 429, 430, 431, 434).
Improving performance: avoid acquiring state lock for every API request (WIP).
Adding a new feature where lanes are used to start services (WIP), this will also fix issue 231.
Some minor fixes: a work around with user.Lookup not returning UnknownUserError; don’t hold planLock while calling plan-changed listeners (WIP).

Juju SDK: Updated the How to register an interface and How to write interface tests guides with latest content and examples; improved a few how-to docs with more links to code and examples; restructured and filled in some gaps in How to add a relation to a charm.
Ops: Continue working on enriching the ops API reference; added ops.main docs; added a basic security policy.
Pebble: Created a new tutorial, a how-to-install guide, and some reusable content to better organize the documentation. More how-to and reference docs will come soon.
Scenario: a basic API reference docs (WIP); adding instructions for moving from 6.x to 7.x (WIP).