According to the docs:
Is this like like every 30 seconds, every few minutes, or more like every half-hour? Or does it depend?
I assume I shouldn’t rely on it for anything that requires critical timing, but I wanted to make sure it was suitable for something that needs to happen at least once-per-day and it doesn’t matter if it happens more often.
Update status runs in around a 5min interval. It’s tweaked so that not all units will flood at the same window.
As far as using it for automated things I’d suggest actually adding/managing a cron.d script as you’ll get something that’s more sustainable and using system logging/etc vs something running as root in the charm.
Cool thanks.
I actually need it to run in the charm because I need to check for changes to certificates and update relations if necessary. Eventually I think I’m going to add a cron scheduler to the Lucky daemon for stuff like this, but at the moment update-status should work fine.
It’s also configurable within the model.
Run: $ juju model-config
There is a config option in there that allows you to modify it.
It’s the update-status-hook-interval configuration parameter:
update-status-hook-interval: type: string description: | How often to run the charm update-status hook, in human-readable time format (default 5m, range 1-60m)
From juju help model-config
It’s actually possible to run things, via cron, within the charm’s context! You can see an example of a charm doing this in the glance-simplestreams-sync charm. There’s a python script that’s run via cron and does things like set unit status, querying relation data, and even updating relations!
That’s quite the hack. Nice work!