Charm layers & Windows

[Marco Ceppi]

There are two things that need to be done. The first, we need the reactive
framework to be ported to powershell - that way we can have charms written
in powershell and compiled as such. I know the cloud base folks poked at
that a bit in Gent during the Summit but I haven't heard much from there.

The second, is two base layers. The first is a powershell base layer so you
get the awesome powerhshell helpers cloudbase has created (like the python
charm helpers). That way native power shell layers can be written. The
second is to create a python-windows base layer, this would be the basic
layer and then the necessary methods to install Python on the windows
machine so that python layers work properly.

Some of this we can pilot ourselves, (mostly the python-windows layer) -
some of the team is sprinting so I'll add that as a stretch goal. The
powershell native features we'll need help and I admit I've done a terrible
job keeping up with the cloudbase folks who have been invaluable as a
windows + juju resource thus far.

Marco

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:46 AM Rick Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com>
wrote:

> I know that Gabriel and some of the CloudBase folks seemed interested in
> layers and possibly some tooling with powershell. I'm not sure how far that
> went but I thought they were experimenting during the charmer's summit.
> That would help with a charm build on windows, but not for some common code
> between both operating systems.
>
> An interesting thing is how much setup and how ootb the Ubuntu on Windows
> needs. If it's working out of the box, it might be an interesting move for
> us and our tools that Windows users could get a Linux experience. I guess
> that it won't be ideal though as I'm not sure what the server side plans
> around that work is.
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:18 AM Andrew Wilkins <
> andrew.wilkins at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to write a charm that should be mostly identical on Windows
>> and Linux, so I think it would make sense to have common code in the form
>> of a layer.
>>
>> Is anyone working on getting "charm build", layers, and friends to work
>> with Windows workloads? If not, I may look into it myself.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andrew
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