Hi all So last week we had a Juju induction sprint for Tanzanite and Moonstone teams to welcome Eric and Katherine to the Juju fold. Following is a summary of some key outcomes from the sprint that are relevant to others working on Juju (we also did other stuff not generally applicable for this email). Some items will interest some folks, while others may not quite be so relevant to you, so scan the topics to see what you find interesting.
* Architectural overview - and a cool new tool The sprint started with an architectural overview of the Juju moving parts and how they interacted to deploy and maintain a Juju environment. Katherine noted that our in-tree documentation has lots of text and no diagrams. She pointed out a great tool for easily putting together UML diagrams using a simple text based syntax - Plant UML http://plantuml.sourceforge.net. Check it out, it's pretty cool. We'll be adding a diagram or two to the in-tree docs to show how it works. * Code review (replacement for Github's native code review) We are going to use Review Board. When we first looked at it before the sprint, a major show stopper was lack of an auth plugin which worked with Github. Eric has stepped up and written the necessary plugin. We'll have something deployed this week or early next week, once some more tooling to finish the Github integration is done. The key features: - Login with Github button on main login screen - pull requests automatically imported to Review Board and added to review queue - diffs can be uploaded to Review Board as WIP and submitted to Github when finalised * Fixing the Juju state.State mess state is a mess of layering violations and intermingled concerns. The result is slow and fragile unit tests, scalability issues, hard to understand code, code which is difficult to extend and refactor (to name a few issues). The correct layering should be something like: * remote service interface (aka apiserver) * juju services for managing machines, services, units etc * juju domain model * model persistence (aka state) The persistence layer above is all that should be in the state package. The plan is to incrementally extract Juju service business logic out of state and pull it up into a services layer. The first to be done is the machine placement and deployment logic. Wayne has a WIP branch for this. The benefit of this work can't be overstated, and the sprint allowed both teams to be able to work together to understand the direction and intent of the work. * Mongo 2.6 support The work to port Juju to Mongo 2.6 is pretty much complete. The newer Mongo version offers a number of bug fixes and improvements over the 2.4 series, and we need to be able to run with an up-to-date version. * Providers don't need to have a storage implementation (almost) A significant chunk of old code which was to support agents connecting directly to mongo was removed (along with the necessary refactoring). This then allowed the Environ interface to drop the StateInfo() method and instead implement a method which returns the state server instances (not committed yet but close). The next step is to remove the Storage() interface from Environ and make storage an internal implementation detail which is not mandatory, so long as providers have a way to figure out their state servers (this can be done using tagging for example). * Juju 1.20.1 release (aka juju/mongo issues) A number of issues with how Juju and mongo interact became apparent when replicasets were used for HA. Unfortunately Juju 1.20 shipped with these issues unfixed. Part of the sprint was spent working on some urgent fixes to ship a bug fix 1.20.1 release. There's still an outstanding mongo session issue that needs to be fixed this week for a 1.20.2 release. Michael is working on it. The tl;dr is that we are holding onto sessions and not refreshing, which means that the underlying socket can time out and Juju loses connection to mongo. * Add support for Juju in China for Amazon (almost) The supported regions for the EC2 provider are hard coded and so new regions in China were not supported. The Chinese regions also use a new signing algorithm. There should be a fix in place this week. Since all the changes are in the goamz library, the change to juju-core is merely a dependency update. So this feature should be available in the 1.20.2 release. All up, a productive sprint with some great collaboration between the two teams. -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
