Juju stable 1.23.2 is released
Antonio Rosales
antonio.rosales at canonical.com
Thu Apr 30 22:00:21 UTC 2015
\o/
Thanks for the hard work on this. I can't wait to give all these new
features a spin.
-Antonio
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Curtis Hovey-Canonical
<curtis at canonical.com> wrote:
> # juju-core 1.23.2
>
> A new stable release of Juju, juju-core 1.23.2, is now available.
> This release replaces version 1.22.1.
>
>
> ## Getting Juju
>
> juju-core 1.23.2 is available for vivid and backported to earlier
> series in the following PPA:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~juju/+archive/stable
>
> Windows and OS X users will find installers at:
>
> https://launchpad.net/juju-core/+milestone/1.23.2
>
>
> ## Notable Changes
>
> * New Support for Google Compute Engine (GCE)
> * Support for systemd (and Vivid)
> * New Style Restore
> * Improved Proxy Support for Restrictive Networks
> * New Charm Actions
> * New blocks and Messages.
> * Experimental: Service Leader Elections
> * Experimental: Addressable LXC Containers and KVM Instances on AWS and MAAS
>
>
> ### New Support for Google Compute Engine (GCE)
>
> A new provider has been added that supports hosting a Juju environment
> in GCE. This feature leverages the support for Ubuntu cloud-images that
> GCE added late 2014. It uses Google's GCE API to interact with your
> account there. API authentication credentials, as well as other config
> options, must be added to your environments.yaml file before running
> 'juju bootstrap'. The different options are described below.
>
> The basic config options in your environments.yaml will look like this:
>
> my-gce:
> type: gce
> project-id: <your-project-id>
> private-key: <your-private-key>
> client-email: <your-client-email>
> client-id: <your-client-id>
>
> The values in angle brackets need to be replaced with your GCE
> information.
>
> 'project-id' must identify a GCE project that already exists before you
> run "juju bootstrap". This means creating a new one through the
> developer console (https://console.developers.google.com/project) before
> bootstrapping Juju. To make it easier to quickly identify in your GCE
> console, we recommend that the name start with 'juju-' and that it
> include the environment name you are planning to use. You could also
> use an existing project but we recommend against that if possible.
> Using a new project will make it easier for you to manage the
> environment's resources as well as to track the environment's cost and
> resource usage.
>
> 'private-key', 'client-email', and 'client-id' are your GCE OAuth
> credentials. These details are associated with the 'service account' of
> the GCE project you will use for your Juju environment. For each GCE
> project, a service account is set up automatically when you create
> your project. Juju uses that service account to connect to the GCE API
> and does so with the proper authentication scope. After you have
> created the project go to the following URL to get the
> credentials to use in environments.yaml:
>
> If you extracted the 'private-key' by hand from the GCE project json,
> change "\u003d" to "=".
>
> https://console.developers.google.com/project/<project-id>/apiui/credential
>
> For more information please refer to
>
> https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount#creatinganaccount
> and https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2#serviceaccount.
>
> If the project's service account has any permissions problems go to the
> following page to fix them:
>
> https://console.developers.google.com/project/<project-id>/permissions
>
> The GCE API should already be activated for the project. It it isn't,
> go to the following URL in your console:
>
> https://console.developers.google.com/project/<project-name>/apiui/api
>
> Also see step 2 on
>
> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/api/how-tos/authorization.
>
> The following config options in your environments.yaml file are
> optional:
>
> region - (default us-central1) The location to place the
> environment.
> image-endpoint - (default https://www.googleapis.com) This is
> where Juju will look for disk images when provisioning a
> new instance on GCE.
>
> All Juju 1.23 provider capabilities are available for GCE except for
> networking.
>
>
> ### Support for systemd (and Vivid)
>
> In addition to upstart, Juju now supports Ubuntu hosts using systemd as
> their init system.
>
> Support for systemd allows Juju to run on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet),
> which is the first Ubuntu release to boot with systemd. This means you
> can bootstrap Juju on a Vivid host. Note that the charm store
> (jujucharms.com) only support LTS releases. You can develop and test
> vivid charms in a local charm repository.
>
>
> ### New Style Restore
>
> You can now restore a backup with the new 'backups restore' command,
> which is more reliable and fast. New restore supports backups generated
> with the deprecated Juju backup plugin and with the recently added 'juju
> backups create' command. You can restore from a local backup file like
> so:
>
> juju backups restore [-b] --file <backup file>
>
> Which will optionally bootstrap a new state server, upload a backup file
> and restore it. The -b option will fail if there is a running state
> server.
>
> You can also restore from a backup stored on the state-server:
>
> juju backups restore --id <on server backup id>
>
> To obtain a list of the existing backups in the state-server you can
> use:
>
> juju backups list
>
>
> ### Improved Proxy Support for Restrictive Networks
>
> A few of issues around HTTP/HTTPS and apt proxy support were fixed (Lp
> 1403225, Lp 1417617). Charm downloads from the charm store which could
> not be completed due to connectivity issues are now retried every few
> minutes rather than once every 24 hours. Proxy settings from the
> environment (http-proxy, https-proxy, ftp-proxy, apt-http-proxy,
> apt-https-proxy, apt-ftp-proxy, and no-proxy) are properly propagated to
> all machines, and Juju agents use them for all external connectivity.
> The juju run command also uses proxy settings when defined, as well as
> debug-hooks and all hooks the a charm runs. You can specify one or more
> proxy settings via environment variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, etc.)
> or inside your environments.yaml. Other related proxies are configured
> as needed (e.g. you can specify just http-proxy, and that will also be
> used for https, ftp, and apt proxies).
>
>
> ### New Charm Actions
>
> Juju charms can describe actions that users can take on deployed
> services. These actions are scripts that can be triggered on a unit by
> the via the Juju CLI (support for triggering actions from the Juju GUI
> will follow soon). Schemas for each action are defined in an
> actions.yaml file in the charm root, and conform to JSON-Schema. When an
> action is invoked, passed parameters are validated against the
> respective schema as explained in "Actions for the Charm author" at both
> the API and the unit level:
>
> https://jujucharms.com/docs/1.20/authors-charm-actions
>
> CLI Actions are sub-commands of the 'juju action' command. For more
> details on their usage, 'juju action help' has examples and further
> material.
>
> The following subcommands are currently specified:
>
> * defined - show actions defined for a service
> * do - queue an action for execution
> * fetch - show results of an action by ID
> * status - show results of actions filtered by optional ID prefix
>
>
> ### New Blocks and Messages
>
> You can now specify block message when you enable a block. For example,
> you can add a message to 'destroy-environment':
>
> juju block destroy-environment "Don't destroy this environment"
> juju destroy-environment
> ERROR Don't destroy this environment
>
> You can list the blocks enabled in the environment like so:
>
> juju block list
> destroy-environment=on, Don't destroy this environment
> remove-object=off
> all-changes=off
>
> The Multiwatcher now has information about blocks. There is now block
> client capable of switching blocks on/off as well as listing all enabled
> blocks.
>
>
> ### Experimental: Service Leader Elections
>
> Services can now coordinate leadership among the deployed units using
> Juju's service leader election support.
>
> Charms now have access to three new hook tools:
>
> is-leader - returns true only if the executing unit is guaranteed
> service leadership for the next 30s
> leader-get - as relation-get; accessible only within the service
> leader-set - as relation-set; will fail if not executed on leader
>
> ...and two new hooks:
>
> leader-elected - runs when the unit takes service leadership
> leader-settings-changed - runs when another unit runs leader-set
>
> When a unit starts up, it will always run either leader-elected or
> leader-settings-changed as soon as possible, delaying only doing so only
> to run the install hook; complete any queued or in-flight operation; or
> resolve a hook or upgrade error.
>
>
> ### Experimental: Addressable LXC Containers and KVM Instances on AWS and MAAS
>
> The Juju AWS and MAAS providers now support starting LXC containers. The
> MAAS providers also supports networking on KVM. Containers and Virtual
> Machines will be given statically allocated private IP addresses from
> the same subnet as their host machine. For example on MAAS you can now:
>
> juju deploy wordpress --to lxc:0
> juju add-unit mysql --to kvm:1
>
> This experimental feature can be enabled when the environment is
> bootstrapped like so:
>
> JUJU_DEV_FEATURE_FLAGS="address-allocation" juju bootstrap
>
> Known limitations:
>
> * Amazon limits the number of addresses the containers an instance can
> have based on it’s size.
> * Statically allocated addresses are not released on container shutdown.
> * Container addressability does not survive a host reboot.
> * No public IP address is added on AWS, and we don’t yet support
> dynamic port mapping -- so you can not yet expose containerized
> services on Amazon.
>
>
> ## Resolved issues
>
> * Allow annotations to be set on charms
> Lp 1313016
>
> * Juju-backup is not a valid plugin
> Lp 1389326
>
> * Juju needs to support systemd for >= vivid
> Lp 1409639
>
> * Joyent provider uploads user's private ssh key by default
> Lp 1415671
>
> * Unable to bootstrap on cn-north-1
> Lp 1415693
>
> * Debug messages show when only info was asked for
> Lp 1421237
>
> * Juju default logging leaks credentials
> Lp 1423272
>
> * Juju resolve doesn't recognize error state
> Lp 1424069
>
> * Juju status --format=tabular
> Lp 1424590
>
> * Ec2 provider unaware of c3 types in sa-east-1
> Lp 1427840
>
> * Ec2 eu-central-1 region not in provider
> Lp 1428117
>
> * Ec2 provider does not include c4 instance family
> Lp 1428119
>
> * Allwatcher does not remove last closed port for a unit, last removed
> service config
> Lp 1428430
>
> * Make kvm containers addressable (esp. on maas)
> Lp 1431130
>
> * Fix container addressability issues with cloud-init, precise, when
> lxc-clone is true
> Lp 1431134
>
> * Dhcp's "option interface-mtu 9000" is being ignored on bridge
> interface br0
> Lp 1403955
>
> * Juju-1.23beta3 breaks glance <-> mysql relation when glance is
> hosted in a container
> Lp 1441811
>
> * Juju ensure-availability should be able to target existing
> machines
> Lp 1394755
>
> * Juju 1.23b4 vivid panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or
> nil pointer dereference
> Lp 1443541
>
> * 1.23-beta4 sporadically fails autotests
> Lp 1443440
>
> * 1.23.1: bootstrap failure, vivid, local provider
> Lp 1447446
>
> * Hooks don't fire after upgrade 1.23.0
> Lp 1447846
>
> Finally
>
> We encourage everyone to subscribe the mailing list at
> juju-dev at lists.canonical.com, or join us on #juju-dev on freenode.
>
>
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> Canonical Cloud Development and Operations
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Antonio Rosales
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