If you’ve installed juju via snap, this plugin is probably already on your $PATH, so you can go ahead and use it as you would any other juju command.
Usage:
juju metadata [flags] <command> ...
Summary:
tools for generating and validating image and tools metadata
Flags:
--debug (= false)
Equivalent to --show-log --logging-config==DEBUG
--description (= false)
Show short description of plugin, if any
-h, --help (= false)
Show help on a command or other topic.
--log-file (= "")
Path to write log to
--logging-config (= "")
Specify log levels for modules
-q, --quiet (= false)
Show no informational output
--show-log (= false)
If set, write the log file to stderr
-v, --verbose (= false)
Show more verbose output
Details:
Juju metadata is used to find the correct image and agent binaries when bootstrapping a Juju model.
commands:
add-image - adds image metadata to model
delete-image - deletes image metadata from environment
generate-agents - generate simplestreams agent metadata
generate-image - generate simplestreams image metadata
generate-tools - Alias for 'generate-agents'.
help - Show help on a command or other topic.
list-images - lists cloud image metadata used when choosing an image to start
sign - sign simplestreams metadata
validate-agents - check that compressed tar archives (.tgz) for the Juju agent binaries are available
validate-images - validate image metadata and ensure image(s) exist for a model
validate-tools - Alias for 'validate-agents'.