Provider storage

[Charles Butler]

Hi5 Andrew!

Nice work on this. Glad to see we're lowering the barrier to entry for mass
provider creation. *hattip*

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Andrew Wilkins <
andrew.wilkins at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Storage is no longer a requirement for providers. We're now storing tools
> and charms in GridFS (MongoDB), with metadata in state. Several of the
> providers continue to use storage internally to record state server
> instance IDs, but this is now an internal detail for those providers.
> Please don't go using provider storage for anything new.
>
> Backups are currently still using provider storage, *if* it is
> implemented. If it's not implemented, you'll get an error if you try to
> perform a backup. We'll need to migrate away from provider storage for
> backups too, eventually, if we're to provide a consistent solution; all
> existing providers continue to implement Storage internally, for the time
> being, so there's no huge rush.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
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