How to compare a bundle to a model

See also:

Juju OLM | juju diff-bundle

To compare a model’s configuration to that of a bundle, use the diff-bundle command:

Consider, for example, a model for which the status command yields the output below:

Model  Controller  Cloud/Region         Version  SLA          Timestamp
docs   lxd         localhost/localhost  2.5.0    unsupported  05:22:22Z

App        Version  Status   Scale  Charm      Store       Rev  OS      Notes
haproxy             unknown      1  haproxy    jujucharms   46  ubuntu  
mariadb    10.1.37  active       1  mariadb    jujucharms    7  ubuntu  
mediawiki  1.19.14  active       1  mediawiki  jujucharms   19  ubuntu  

Unit          Workload  Agent  Machine  Public address  Ports   Message
haproxy/0*    unknown   idle   2        10.86.33.28     80/tcp  
mariadb/0*    active    idle   1        10.86.33.192            ready
mediawiki/0*  active    idle   0        10.86.33.19     80/tcp  Ready

Machine  State    DNS           Inst id        Series  AZ  Message
0        started  10.86.33.19   juju-dbf96b-0  trusty      Running
1        started  10.86.33.192  juju-dbf96b-1  trusty      Running
2        started  10.86.33.28   juju-dbf96b-2  bionic      Running

Relation provider  Requirer              Interface     Type     Message
haproxy:peer       haproxy:peer          haproxy-peer  peer     
mariadb:cluster    mariadb:cluster       mysql-ha      peer     
mariadb:db         mediawiki:db          mysql         regular  
mediawiki:website  haproxy:reverseproxy  http          regular

Now say we have a bundle file bundle.yaml with these contents:

applications:
  mediawiki:
    charm: "mediawiki"
    num_units: 1
    options:
      name: Central library
  mysql:
    charm: "mysql"
    num_units: 1
    options:
      "binlog-format": MIXED
      "block-size": 5
      "dataset-size": "512M"
      flavor: distro
      "ha-bindiface": eth0
      "ha-mcastport": 5411
      "max-connections": -1
      "preferred-storage-engine": InnoDB
      "query-cache-size": -1
      "query-cache-type": "OFF"
      "rbd-name": mysql1
      "tuning-level": safest
      vip_cidr: 24
      vip_iface: eth0
relations:
  - - "mediawiki:db"
    - "mysql:db"

Comparison of the currently active model with the bundle can be achieved in this way:

juju diff-bundle bundle.yaml

This produces an output of:

applications:
  haproxy:
    missing: bundle
  mariadb:
    missing: bundle
  mediawiki:
    charm:
      bundle: mediawiki-5
      model: mediawiki-19
    series:
      bundle: ""
      model: trusty
    options:
      name:
        bundle: Central library
        model: null
  mysql:
    missing: model
machines:
  "0":
    missing: bundle
  "1":
    missing: bundle
  "2":
    missing: bundle
relations:
  bundle-additions:
  - - mediawiki:db
    - mysql:db
  model-additions:
  - - haproxy:reverseproxy
    - mediawiki:website
  - - mariadb:db
    - mediawiki:db

This informs us of the differences in terms of applications, machines, and relations. For instance, compared to the model, the bundle is missing applications ‘haproxy’ and ‘mariadb’, whereas the model is missing ‘mysql’. Both model and bundle utilise the ‘mediawiki’ application but they differ in terms of configuration. There are also differences being reported in the ‘machines’ and ‘relations’ sections. We’ll now focus on the ‘machines’ section in order to demonstrate other features of the diff-bundle command.

We can extend the bundle by including a bundle overlay. Consider an overlay bundle file changes.yaml with these machine related contents:

applications:
  mediawiki:
    to: 2
  mysql:
    to: 3
machines:
  "2":
    series: trusty
    constraints: arch=amd64 cores=1
  "3":
    series: trusty
    constraints: arch=amd64 cores=1

Here, by means of the --overlay option, we can add this extra information to the comparison, effectively inflating the configuration of the bundle:

juju diff-bundle bundle.yaml --overlay changes.yaml

This changes the ‘machines’ section of the output to:

machines:
  "0":
    missing: bundle
  "1":
    missing: bundle
  "2":
    series:
      bundle: trusty
      model: bionic
  "3":
    missing: model

The initial comparison displayed a lack of all three machines in the bundle. By adding machines ‘2’ and ‘3’ in the overlay the output now shows machines ‘0’ and ‘1’ as missing in the bundle, machine ‘2’ differs in configuration, and machine ‘3’ is missing in the model.

As with the deploy command, there is the ability to map machines in the bundle to those in the model. Below, the addition of --map-machines=2=0,3=1 makes, for the sake of the comparison, bundle machines 2 and 3 become model machines 0 and 1, respectively:

juju diff-bundle bundle.yaml --overlay changes.yaml --map-machines=2=0,3=1

The ‘machines’ section now becomes:

machines:
  "2":
    missing: bundle

The bundle shows as only missing machine 2 now, which makes sense.

The target bundle can also reside within the online Charm Store. In that case you would simply reference the bundle name, such as ‘wiki-simple’:

juju diff-bundle wiki-simple

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