Check out the openvpn charm form the tengu team

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

2017-04-14 16:10 GMT+02:00 Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi at canonical.com>:

> I'd like to point you both to this idea, which is one that was born from
> the same problem Kubernetes has: https://bugs.launchpad.ne
> t/juju/+bug/1670838. The idea is actions should be able to both send and
> receive files.
>

+1

One thing to consider here is that actions always have to be triggered from
the operator side. It would also be nice if the charm cloud periodically
push a backup to the controller without the operator having to call an
action.




> As actions are exposed in the GUI this could help address the above
> problem as well.
>


>From what I know, actions aren't yet supported in the GUI:
https://github.com/juju/juju-gui/issues/2185



>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:07 AM Merlijn Sebrechts <
> merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, "inverse resources" is what I'm thinking about. Another use-case for
>> this would be to download backups and exports from the Charm. The
>> Kubernetes Charms could also benefit from this since they create a config
>> file that an operator has to download to connect to the Kubernetes cluster.
>>
>> `juju scp` solves this issue for the most part but
>>
>>    1. it isn't available from the GUI
>>    2. and the files disappear when the node goes down.
>>
>>
>> 2017-04-14 15:55 GMT+02:00 Rick Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com>:
>>
>>> The delivery of the config files is interesting. There's nothing
>>> planning in the gui at the moment for this. It's kind of an inverse
>>> "resources" idea where you are building artifacts in the charm that you
>>> want clients to be able to get access to. It's an interesting concept. It's
>>> a bit like actions that generate a backup file or the like. The action can
>>> build the backup and tell you where on disk it is, but then you need to
>>> juju scp it down. I wonder if there's a specific action type that generates
>>> artifacts and then there's a followup plugin/helper that automates the juju
>>> scp step for you in a some nice way.
>>>
>>> I think that Chuck was looking to have a relation available. In this way
>>> you could tunnel traffic from an application across the VPN perhaps? In the
>>> world of cross model relations it might enable folks to wire traffic across
>>> clouds/DC in some interesting ways.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:47 AM Merlijn Sebrechts <
>>> merlijn.sebrechts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the post!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd really like to integrate this Charm more with JaaS. I'd like to
>>>> give JaaS users the ability to download the client config files from the
>>>> Juju GUI. Any idea if that's something that's being worked on?
>>>>
>>>> @chuck: I just watched the Juju show, what was the feature you were
>>>> talking about?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> Merlijn
>>>>
>>>> 2017-04-13 16:35 GMT+02:00 Rick Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I wrote up a quick blog post [1] as I was tinkering with VPNs and the
>>>>> OpenVPN charm [2] from the Tengu team is really nice and easy. It also does
>>>>> some great work using metrics in Juju to output operational data. Running
>>>>> juju metrics --all will show you how many clients are connected on each
>>>>> unit. If you're a charmer, it might give you some new ideas for exposing
>>>>> internal data in a really nice standard way.
>>>>>
>>>>> I just wanted to highlight it as something really useful for folks if
>>>>> you've ever found yourself wishing you had a VPN around somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1: http://mitechie.com/blog/2017/4/12/three-reasons-you-need
>>>>> -to-keep-a-vpn-in-your-pocket
>>>>> 2: https://jujucharms.com/openvpn/
>>>>>
>>>>> Rick
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Juju mailing list
>>>>> Juju at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm
>>>>> an/listinfo/juju
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> --
>> Juju mailing list
>> Juju at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm
>> an/listinfo/juju
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/juju/attachments/20170414/8a956471/attachment.html>