How to make your charm configurable
Charms should always deploy with considered defaults that enable the application to start with as little friction as possible. That said, there are cases when it may be prudent to expose application configuration to the administrator. This should be a point of consideration for the charm developer; configuration is one of the few interfaces a charm developer can expose to an administrator, and thus it should be carefully designed.
One way to think about this is what are the necessary configuration options to configure the service the application provides. If you find the configuration specification too restrictive, and find yourself passing in lots of base64 encoded structures, you may want to rethink the approach.
Contents:
Define a configuration option
In the config.yaml file of the charm, under options, add a configuration definition.
See more: File
config.yaml>options
Define configuration event handlers
In your charm.py file, set up an observer for the config-changed event and pair it with an event handler.
See more: Event
config-changed
Pro tip: It’s a good idea to validate values, as Juju only checks that the type is valid.
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