Juju Team Updates - Week #30 2021

[pedroleaoc (Pedro Leão da Cruz)]

Hi everyone, below you can find the updates from the Canonical Juju Team for the week starting on the 26/07/2021. Have a great weekend!

cc @pedroleaoc @jameinel

[achilleasa (Achilleas Anagnostopoulos)]

• 3.0
  • Landed some preparatory refactoring work for supporting asynchronous charm downloads.
  • Began work on the asynchronous charm download worker implementation.

[hmlanigan (Heather Lanigan)]

• Landed work from last week to add --revision to juju deploy for Charmhub charms. Requires use of the --channel flag to provide a refresh path for the units in the future. Does not work for charms with resources, yet.
• Prep work landed for deploying Charmhub charms with resources by revisions.
• Added a logger label of “Charmhub” to facilitate debugging on this project.
• Working on deploy of Charmhub charms with resources by revision.

[benhoyt]

• Finished the PR to fix refresh when upgrading from a pod-spec to a sidecar charm (finally!).
• Removed the now-unused ApplicationWatcherFacade.
• In Python Operator Framework, fixed Pebble push() handling of binary files.

[wallyworld (Ian Booth)]

• Juju 2.9.10 release candidate
• intermittent Azure provider block device issue
• secrets specification
• update to juju-controller charm
• juju 3.0 now deploys beta juju-controller charm on bootstrap

[kelvin.liu (Yang Kelvin Liu)]

Working on two bugs for supporting customised caas image repo/private repo (in process):

• Bug #1935953 “juju upgrade-controller with custom caas-image-rep...” : Bugs : juju
• Bug #1935830 “Juju doesn't support authentication for caas-image...” : Bugs : juju

[hpidcock (Harry Pidcock)]

• Pebble replan command PR is up for review now pebble#60
• Fix agent binary downloading to only download once. juju#13198 LP1936684 LP1900021

[tlm (Thomas Miller)]

• Work on resource deployments in pylib Juju for Charmhub