How to manage clouds

The procedure for how to add a cloud definition to Juju depends on whether the cloud is a machine (traditional, non-Kubernetes) cloud or rather a Kubernetes cloud.

Add a machine cloud

To add a machine cloud to Juju, run the add-cloud command:

juju add-cloud

This will start an interactive session where you’ll be asked to choose a cloud type (from a given list), the name that you want to use for your cloud, the API endpoint, the authentication type, etc. Juju will use this to create a cloud definition.

The command also has a manual mode where you can specify the desired cloud name and cloud definition file in-line; whether you want this definition to be known just to the Juju client or also to an existing controller (the latter creates what is known as a multi-cloud controller); etc.

See more: juju add-cloud, Cloud definition, juju environment variables > JUJU_DATA

Add a Kubernetes cloud

To add a Kubernetes cloud to Juju:

1. Prepare your kubeconfig file.

2. Run the add-k8s command followed by the desired cloud name:

juju add-k8s <cloud name>

Juju will check the default location for the kubeconfig file and use the information in there to create a cloud definition.

The command also allows you to specify a non-default kubeconfig file path (via the KUBECONFIG environment variable); in the case where you have multiple cluster definitions and credentials in your kubeconfig file, which cluster and credential to use; what name you want to assign to your new cloud; whether you want to make this cloud known just to the client or also to an existing controller (the latter gives rise to what is known as a multi-cloud controller); etc.

See more: juju add-k8s

Terraform Juju does not support managing clouds. Please use the juju CLI instead.

The cloud for your Terraform plan will be whichever cloud the controller in the plan’s provider definition is associated with.

See more: How to manage the client

If the controller is associated with more than one cloud (i.e., if it is a multi-cloud controller), you can decide which cloud a specific model in your plan should be associated with by specifying the cloud attribute.

See more: How to add a model

Note that, with python-libjuju, you can only add a cloud definition to a controller you’ve already bootstrapped with the juju client.

To add a cloud, you may use the Controller.add_cloud() method on a connected Controller object.

from juju.client import client as jujuclient

await my_controller.add_cloud("my-cloud", 
    jujuclient.Cloud(
            auth_types=["userpass"],
            endpoint="http://localhost:1234",
            type_="kubernetes",
    ))

See more: add_cloud (method), Cloud (object)

To get a list of all the clouds that your Juju client is currently aware of, run the clouds command with the --client and -all flags:

juju clouds --client --all

This will return something similar to:

You can bootstrap a new controller using one of these clouds...

Clouds available on the client:
Cloud        Regions  Default        Type     Credentials  Source    Description
aws          22       us-east-1      ec2      0            public    Amazon Web Services
aws-china    2        cn-north-1     ec2      0            public    Amazon China
aws-gov      2        us-gov-west-1  ec2      0            public    Amazon (USA Government)
azure        43       centralus      azure    0            public    Microsoft Azure
azure-china  4        chinaeast      azure    0            public    Microsoft Azure China
equinix      25       px             equinix  0            public    
google       25       us-east1       gce      0            public    Google Cloud Platform
localhost    1        localhost      lxd      1            built-in  LXD Container Hypervisor
microk8s     1        localhost      k8s      1            built-in  A Kubernetes Cluster
oracle       4        us-phoenix-1   oci      0            public    Oracle Compute Cloud Service

where each line represents a cloud that Juju can interact with – the cloud name (that you will have to use to interact with the cloud), the number of cloud regions Juju is aware of, the default region (for the current Juju client), the type/API used to control it, the number of credentials associated with a cloud, the source of the cloud, and a brief description.

By omitting the flags, you will see a list of the clouds available on the client for which you have also registered the credentials. Alternatively, by passing other flags you can specify an output format or file, etc.

See more: juju clouds

The terraform juju client does not support this. Please use the juju client.

To get all clouds known to the controller, you may use the Controller.clouds() method on a connected Controller object. It will return a list of Cloud objects.

await my_controller.clouds()

See more: clouds (method), Cloud (object)

To get more detail about a particular cloud, run the show-cloud command followed by the cloud name, e.g.,

juju show-cloud azure

The command also has flags that allow you to specify whether you want this information from the client or rather a controller; whether you want the output to include the configuration options specific to the cloud; an output format or file; etc.

See more: juju show-cloud

The terraform juju client does not support this. Please use the juju client.

To get more detail about a particular cloud, you may use the Controller.cloud() method on a connected Controller object. It will return a Cloud object.

await my_controller.cloud()

See more: cloud (method), Cloud (object)

View all the known regions

To see which regions Juju is aware of for any given cloud, use the regions command. For example, for the ‘aws’ cloud, run:

juju regions aws

This should output something similar to:

Client Cloud Regions
us-east-1
us-east-2
us-west-1
us-west-2
ca-central-1
eu-west-1
eu-west-2
eu-west-3
eu-central-1
eu-north-1
eu-south-1
af-south-1
ap-east-1
ap-south-1
ap-southeast-1
ap-southeast-2
ap-southeast-3
ap-northeast-1
ap-northeast-2
ap-northeast-3
me-south-1
sa-east-1

The command also has flags that allow you to select a specific controller, choose an output format or file, etc.

See more: juju regions

Manage the default region

Set the default region. To set the default region for a cloud, run the default-region command followed by the name of the cloud and the name of the region that you want to start using as a default. For example:

juju default-region aws eu-central-1

If at any point you want to reset this value, drop the region argument and pass the --reset flag.

See more: juju default-region

Get the default region. To get the current default region for a cloud, run the default-region command followed by the name of the cloud. For example:

juju default-region azure-china

See more: juju default-region

The terraform juju client does not support this. Please use the juju client.

The python-libjuju client does not support this. Please use the juju client.

The procedure for how to update a cloud on Juju depends on whether the cloud is public or private.

Update a public cloud

To synchronise the Juju client with changes occurring on public clouds (e.g. cloud API changes, new cloud regions) or on Juju’s side (e.g. support for a new cloud), run the update-public-clouds command:

juju update-public-clouds

The command also allows you to specify whether you want this update to happen on the client or rather a controller.

See more: juju update-public-clouds

Update a private cloud

juju update-cloud mymaas -f path/to/maas.yaml

Remove a cloud

See also: Removing things reference

To remove a cloud definition from Juju, run the remove-cloud command followed by the name of the cloud. For example:

juju remove-cloud lxd-remote

The command also allows you to specify whether this operation should be performed on the client or rather on a specific controller.

See more: juju remove-cloud

The terraform juju client does not support this. Please use the juju client.

To remove a cloud definition, you may use the Controller.remove_cloud() method on a connected Controller object.

await my_controller.remove_cloud()

See more: remove_cloud (method)