OS X VMS on JAAS

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 06/03/2017 02:56 AM, John Meinel wrote:
> You can add a manually provisioned machine to any model, as long as 
> there is connectivity from the machine to the controller. Now, I would 
> have thought initial setup was initiated by the Controller, but its 
> possible that initial setup is actually initiated from the client.
>
> Once initial setup is complete, then it is definitely true that all 
> connections are initiated from the agent running on the controlled 
> machine to the controller. The controller no longer tries to 
> socket.connect to the machine. (In 1.X 'actions' were initiated via 
> ssh from the controller, but in 2.X the agents listen to see if there 
> are any actions to run like they do for all other changes.)
>
> Now, given that he added a model into "us-east-1" if he ever did just 
> a plain "juju add-machine" or "juju deploy" (without --to) it would 
> definitely create a new instance in AWS and start configuring it, 
> rather than from your VM.
Is it possible for us to convey the model's proper location, even when 
using jaas? He's in effect lying to the controller which does have the 
knock-on affect of weird behavior.
>
> Which is why using something like the "lxd provider" would be a more 
> natural use case, but according to James the sticking point is having 
> to set up a controller in the first place. So "--to lxd:0" is easier 
> for them to think about than setting up a provider and letting it 
> decide how to allocate machines.
>
> Note, it probably wouldn't be possible to use JAAS to drive an LXD 
> provider, because *that* would have JAAS be trying to make a direct 
> connection to your LXD agent in order to provision the next machine. 
> However "--to lxd:0" has the local juju agent (running for 'machine 
> 0') talking to the local LXD agent in order to create a container.
If this is a useful case, could we define it as a mode of operation and 
have juju just work in such a scenario? It's an interesting mix of 
allowing the benefits of jaas for manually provisioned machines and 
environments. Just eliminating the weird behaviors and having to pretend 
it's a known cloud / provider could be useful. An assume nothing mode if 
you will.

Nicholas