Juju Progress Report - 2020-W20

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Juju Progress Report - 2020-W18

Juju’s development has been focused on strengthening the upcoming 2.8 release. The call for testing is open:

[Call for testing] Upcoming Juju 2.8 release

Juju 2.8.0 due to be released in early May. The release includes several features that have been in development for several months. You are very welcome to help with testing. Tentative release schedule Date Event April 23, 2020 (UTC) 2.8-beta1 released May 11, 2020 (UTC) 2.8-rc1 released May 18, 2020 (UTC) 2.8.0 released How to test Beta testers should be experienced Juju users with a pre-release version of Juju installed. Installing pre-released versions of Juju We recomm…

You can take a sneak peek at the features being released:

What's new in Juju 2.8

The Juju 2.8 series brings several features to the Juju community. Usability enhancements Improved resource usage Juju agents (jujud processes) now use less memory, particularly for long-lived models. Increased speed Several internal changes have led to speed improvements while executing hooks. This means that all Juju operations should run faster on Juju 2.8 than previous versions.

Further details

As an implementation detail, the Juju controller stores its state within a database. Research …

Projects related to Juju core have also maintained their progress:

pylibjuju

pylibjuju 2.8.0 has been released to coincide with the new Juju version and features.

Operator Framework

Charmcraft bi-weekly dev summary (first!) - 2020w19,20

Here’s a first pass at what a ‘bi-weekly dev summary’ would look like. Feedback appreciated. Ops (the operator framework itself) A first pass at API documentation is up on RTD. The domain is not final, in that it might change in the next month or so if the paperwork goes through, and redirecting isn’t a feature rtd supports so share accordingly. It’s also very much a straight dump of the generated docs, with nothing to give it too much structure, so it’s not a very good first impression yet. L…

Feature Development

Juju Dashboard integrated

JAAS Dashboard, the new Juju GUI

JAAS Dashboard, the new Juju GUI The Juju UI team who previously developed and maintained the Juju GUI have taken a measured shift in direction. The GUI had many features from a drag-and-drop relation creation, unit placement, etc. which the team were proud to demonstrate and show off the power of the UI. Unfortunately, the usage of these features was limited in practice and in truth, a lot of these features were achievable easily via the CLI. What is the JAAS Dashboard The JAAS dashboard is a…

Links to interesting community discussions

Critical Review of Juju Today

Hello everybody, me and my team at Katharos Technology wanted to share our critical review of what Juju is like today. None of this is stated just to senselessly bash on Juju and its problems, but is an honest evaluation of Juju based on our experiences with it. We want to share our experiences and what we have learned, both the good and the bad, so that we can help Juju grow and become better. We have the utmost respect for Juju and the people involved both from Canonical and from the the comm…

Handling properietary bundles

I am starting to go down the route of charming my infra… really excited… BUT I have one thing which I cannot figure out… I have a proprietary asset which must be installed and allowed to pop up with a GUI to login … does Juju Charms manage or have a way to manage this ? The asset in question is IB Gateway… a proprietary application I need to start and login to … in order to start querying for data … how is it suggested I start ? https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=16457 edit: o…

Aligning instance names with the model name

When Juju gets instances from a substrate, it often has the option to give them a name, and it uses juju-xxxxxxx-y where I think xxxxxx is a model code and y is the machine number in that model. Wouldn’t it be nicer to replace juju- with the model name? So then we would see instances in the cloud which are much easier to relate to actual functionality. hadoop-334534-0 hadoop-334534-n With many models, this would clean up my dashboards nicely. Thoughts?

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Juju Progress Report - 2020-W18

Juju Progress Report - 2020-W18 Juju’s development has been focused on strengthening the upcoming 2.8 release. The call for testing is open: You can take a sneak peek at the features being released: Feature Development Easier selection of custom image metadata From 2.8, it will now be much easier to supply custom virutal machine image ncluding for non-Ubuntu operating systems such as CentOS and openSUSE. The details have been provided in a seperate post. Backup and r…