Action

See also: How to manage actions

In Juju, an action is a script that is triggered via the juju CLI client and applied to a unit. It contains a list of commands defined by a charm to allow a user with the right access level to interact with the application. An action’s parameters are defined as a map in a YAML file, and are validated against the schema defined in the actions.yaml file of the charm.

(Starting with juju v.3.0: ) Actions are identified by numeric integers (instead of UUIDs).

(Starting with juju v.3.0: ) Running an action defaults to waiting for the output before returning. This synchronous behaviour allows actions to be easily be included in command-line pipelines.

(Starting with juju v.3.0: ) Actions are composed of tasks and operations. More specifically, an action defines a named unit of work (e.g., back up the database) that can be executed on selected units. When you run an action on a specified unit, the execution of the action on each target unit is called a task, and the group of tasks queued via a juju run ... <action> command – an operation.

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