pyjuju

config options need a "file" type

Bug #814974 reported by Clint Byrum on 2011-07-23

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	juju-core	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
	pyjuju	Triaged	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Many web apps have configurable options like "theme" or "logo image" which need to refer to a file. The best way to handle these would be to have a type: url which takes a local path or a remote url, which the *client* will fetch, and then upload to the ensemble environment and feed to the config hook as a url which it can use to pull the file's content.

Just having the hook accept the URL is not enough, the cool part is making it easy to put your logo on your blog without having to put it on img.ur or scp it anywhere.

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Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat) on 2011-07-23

Changed in ensemble:
milestone:	none → dublin

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Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer) wrote on 2011-07-23:

That's a nice feature we should add. I'm not sure if dublin is the right target, though.

Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat) on 2011-08-17

Changed in ensemble:
milestone:	dublin → none

Jim Baker (jimbaker) on 2011-10-06

Changed in juju:
milestone:	none → florence

Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2011-10-21

Changed in juju:
milestone:	florence → none
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
milestone:	none → florence

Jim Baker (jimbaker) on 2011-11-08

Changed in juju:
assignee:	nobody → Jim Baker (jimbaker)
status:	New → In Progress

Jim Baker (jimbaker) on 2011-11-21

Changed in juju:
status:	In Progress → Triaged

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Nick Barcet (nijaba) wrote on 2011-12-09:

This would be very useful as well for setting up https enable site where the certificate file need to reside on every unit of the service.

Using juju scp to each unit is the only workaround I could find right now, and it adds complexity to a simple juju-addunit.

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2011-12-09: Re: [Bug 814974] Re: config options need a "file" type

Excerpts from Nick Barcet's message of Fri Dec 09 12:43:35 UTC 2011:
> This would be very useful as well for setting up https enable site where
> the certificate file need to reside on every unit of the service.
>
> Using juju scp to each unit is the only workaround I could find right
> now, and it adds complexity to a simple juju-addunit.
>

Nick, agreed, this simplifies a lot of common tasks. The current work
around is to uuencode the file into a setting.

juju set cert=`uuencode file.pem` key=`uuencode file.key`

Would then be handled by config-changed by putting those in place as
the certs.

Note that ZK comms inside the network are unencrypted/unauthed, so
your key would be transmitted across the network in the clear, which is
probably a bad idea. In fact, I'm not sure juju is ready for secure work
until we sort the ZK issues in bug #804203.

Jim Baker (jimbaker) on 2012-01-25

Changed in juju:
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Jim Baker (jimbaker) on 2012-02-06

Changed in juju:
status:	In Progress → Triaged
assignee:	Jim Baker (jimbaker) → nobody

Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat) on 2012-03-16

Changed in juju:
milestone:	florence → honolulu

Kapil Thangavelu (hazmat) on 2012-03-18

Changed in juju:
milestone:	honolulu → galapagos

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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote on 2012-05-02:

This is a feature, not a bug. Moving to honolulu

Changed in juju:
milestone:	galapagos → honolulu

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Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer) wrote on 2012-05-11:

Can we leave that to the Go port? It will need a spec or at least some good
debate in either case to see how juju set args, deploy config file, etc,
will behave.

gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
On May 2, 2012 3:41 PM, "Clint Byrum" <email address hidden> wrote:

> This is a feature, not a bug. Moving to honolulu
>
> ** Changed in: juju
> Milestone: galapagos => honolulu
>
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Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) on 2012-09-10

Changed in juju:
milestone:	0.6 → none

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2013-10-12

Changed in juju:
importance:	Wishlist → Low
tags:	added: improvement

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) on 2014-03-30

Changed in juju-core:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Jeff Pihach (hatch) wrote on 2015-08-13:

Any chance this is going to get some work done on it? Every charm I've worked on has needed this functionality in one way or another. It's quite a pain to always have to work around it one way or another.

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Cheryl Jennings (cherylj) wrote on 2016-06-17:

Juju 2.0 introduces this as a concept called resources: https://jujucharms.com/docs/master/developer-resources

Changed in juju-core:
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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