New juju-mongodb package

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Thanks for pushing this, James.

It would be good to have the "mongo" binary available and working as
well, also under that juju-specific namespace. This is the console
client, and will be useful to connect to the local juju database when
debugging issues.

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:46 AM, James Page <james.page at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Hi Folks
>
> I've started working on the new, stripped down, juju specific MongoDB
> package that we have been discussing over the last few weeks.
>
> I'm proposing a package structure like this:
>
>   ./usr/lib/juju/bin/mongos
>   ./usr/lib/juju/bin/mongod
>
> No users will be created; its just the binaries; upstart and general
> system configuration such as creating users will be the responsibility
> of juju.
>
> The mongod and mongos binaries will be provided in a juju namespaced
> location to avoid conflicting with the standard mongodb package; v8
> will be linked statically using the embedded copy of v8 in the mongodb
> source code - this avoids exposing v8 generally in main and allows the
> security team to manage mongodb/v8 in the context of its use with
> juju, rather than in more broad general use.
>
> The plan is that we will apply for a minor release exception for this
> package, and that if need be we can update to a new major release (2.6
> for example) at some point in the future without impacting the rest of
> the distro by bumping the standard mongodb package.
>
> The total compressed package size is about 7MB - expanding to about
> 23MB on disk.
>
> I still need todo some work on getting the embedded v8 copy to build
> for armhf (MongoDB upstream strip this out) - arm64 has been discussed
> but that's going to need some work upstream to enable v8 for this
> architecture.
>
> Other bugs pertinent MongoDB/juju usage would include:
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1208430
>
> I'm pretty sure that running mongodb not as root will be part of the
> security team signoff on the MIR review.
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
> - --
> James Page
> Technical Lead
> Ubuntu Server Team
> james.page at canonical.com
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