Juju architecture questions - nonprovider

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Thomas Leonard's message of 2012-09-21 07:16:53 -0700:
> > On 2012-09-20 10:41, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> > > On 2012-09-17 17:57, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > >> Excerpts from Thomas Leonard's message of 2012-09-17 02:06:03 -0700:
> > > [...]
> > >>> It's also usually uncertain where we will be deploying, so being
> able to
> > >>> handle several different cloud types is useful. Often there is no
> cloud at
> > >>> all, so having something which could deploy LXC containers over a
> fixed set
> > >>> of existing machines would be very useful (like an extended "local"
> > >>> deployment method).
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I've often thought about a more static "nonprovider" environment type
> > >> where the addresses of machines are just listed somewhere and SSH is
> > >> used to install the juju agents. It comes up often enough, I think its
> > >> time we put this on our "experiments to try soon" list.
> > >>
> > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1052065
> > >
> > > OK, I had a look into this. How should the cloud init stuff work? For
> EC2,
> > > EC2LaunchMachine creates a CloudInit and passes that to the new
> machine,
> > > which causes everything to be installed and the machine agents started.
> > [...]
> >
> > OK, I've got a prototype of this working now:
> >
> >    bzr branch lp:~tal-it-innovation/juju/provided
> >
> > Using this I was able to follow the tutorial to deploy mysql + wordpress
> > onto a pre-allocated machine.
>

Very cool.

fwiw, I put together a script for initializing juju on a machine via ssh,
using juju's standard cloudinit mechanism.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1225086/

hth,
Kapil
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