See also: Application
Most charmed operators ship with a sensible default configuration out of the box. However, for some use-cases, it may be desirable or necessary to override the default application configuration options at deployment time. Juju provides tools to help manage these options and respond to changes over the lifetime of the application. These options apply to the entire application, as opposed to only a specific unit or relation. The configuration can be done at deployment time or post-deployment.
Contents:
- Discover application configuration options
- Configure an application during deployment
- Configure an application post deployment
Discover application configuration options
Each charm will have its own set of options and possible values. You can discover these in several ways:
- by running the
config
command - by viewing the charm in the Charm Store
- by examining the
config.yaml
file in the charm itself
Configure an application during deployment
Configuration values can be set at deployment time using the following methods:
- by using a yaml-formatted file
- by passing options/values directly on the command line
- a combination of the above
All these methods use the --config
option.
For example, upon investigation we discover that the Mediawiki charm allows us to set values for the ‘name’ of the wiki and the ‘skin’ to use. We can put these inside a configuration file.
mediawiki:
name: Juju Wiki
skin: monobook
Assuming the file is called myconfig.yaml
, the application can be deployed and configured in this way:
juju deploy --config myconfig.yaml mediawiki
If the configuration file cannot be read or contains syntax errors or invalid options, an error message will be printed to this effect. However, **the application will still be deployed **.
To pass the options directly:
juju deploy --config name='Juju Wiki' --config skin='monobook'
A combination can also be used. If a duplication arises, the last-mentioned value gets used. For instance, below, the wiki will be assigned the name of ‘Juju Wiki’:
juju deploy --config name='Juju Wookie' --config myconfig.yaml
Configure an application post deployment
It is possible to set or change the configuration of an application which is already deployed.
Before you set any of these options, you may want to check what current options are already set. For example:
juju config mediawiki
Should return something like this:
application: mediawiki
charm: mediawiki
settings:
admins:
description: Admin users to create, user:pass
is_default: true
type: string
value: ""
debug:
description: turn on debugging features of mediawiki
is_default: true
type: boolean
value: false
logo:
description: URL to fetch logo from
is_default: true
type: string
value: ""
name:
description: The name, or Title of the Wiki
is_default: true
type: string
value: Please set name of wiki
server_address:
description: The server url to set "$wgServer". Useful for reverse proxies
is_default: true
type: string
value: ""
skin:
description: skin for the Wiki
is_default: true
type: string
value: vector
use_suffix:
description: If we should put '/mediawiki' suffix on the url
is_default: true
type: boolean
value: true
You can set the options in a very similar way. Simply add space-separated key=value pairs as arguments:
juju config mediawiki skin=monoblock name='Juju Wiki'
It is also possible to set options from a YAML file:
juju config mediawiki --file path/to/myconfig.yaml
Setting an option back to its default value is achieved with the --reset
option. Here, the argument is a comma-separated list of the option names in question:
juju config mediawiki --reset admins,name