auto-upgrading models

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

I like #4. I don't think we'd ever want to auto-upgrade all models,
because having models be isolated from one another is kind of the point.

On 04/22/2016 03:14 PM, Eric Snow wrote:
> In a recent bug I was working on the issue of auto-upgrading models
> came up.  I also ran into this personally not too long ago.
> Currently, running "juju upgrade-juju -m admin --upload-tools"[1]
> upgrades the admin model to a new version.  To set the version of any
> other model to the uploaded one, you must do so separately afterward,
> e.g. "juju upgrade-juju -m default 2.0-rc1.3". [2]
>
> The fact that you must upgrade the non-admin model separately is
> something new with multi-model support.  Perhaps it is only something
> that will throw off folks that have relied on --upload-tools
> previously and perhaps it is something that we'll just adjust to.
> However, I wanted to bring the matter up here and identify potential
> courses of action (not all mutually exclusive):
>
> 1. do nothing (rely on users to know to always upgrade juju per-model)
> 2. clearly point this out in the documentation
> 3. add a note in the output of "juju upgrade-juju --upload-tools"
> reminding admins to manually upgrade each model
> 4. make the "juju is out-of-date" warnings also show up for models
> relative to the controller
> 5. auto-upgrade models when the controller is upgraded
> 6. auto-upgrade but have a flag to not auto-upgrade
> 7. have a flag to auto-upgrade
>
> FWIW, I don't consider #1 or #5 to be acceptable options.  I'm on the
> fence about #6; it aligns with what I expect would be a better default
> experience but hesitate to make unrequested changes of that sort by
> default.  So #7 might be more appropriate if the consequences of #6
> would be too risky.  Regardless, I do think the user experience of
> upgrade-juju could be improved.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -eric
>
>
> [1] You can no longer upload tools to any other model than admin.
> [2] Thankfully, due to some recent work by axw the new version is
> *available* to all models.
>

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Katherine