juju bundles should be able to reference local resources

[Matt Bruzek]

In network restricted environments where the Juju controller can not contact the Charm Store the Juju resources feature is difficult to use.

Imagine we have 1 bundle, with 10 charms that use resources. The user would be forced to deploy the bundle and attach 10 resource for this bundle to deploy successfully.

juju deploy ./bundle.yaml
juju attach charm1 resource1=/path/to/resource1
juju attach charm2 resource2=/path/to/resource2
...
juju attach charm10 resource10=/path/to/resource10

I understand that in a normal situation the resources would be downloaded from the Charm Store, but in lab environments such as the OIL lab they do not have access to the Charm Store.

Since bundles can reference local charms we could add the feature of local resources in bundles at deploy time. The user in the example above would only need to run one "juju deploy ./bundle.yaml" command for the bundle with resources to deploy.

Please add local resources to the bundle spec so we can deploy bundles of resource-enabled charms.

[Ashley Lai (alai)]

The OIL lab needs this feature to keep the resources private and partners do not want the resources in the charm store. This feature also provide a solution for environments with restricted network to the charm store as Matt mentioned above.

[Charles Butler (lazypower)]

+1 to this. we have a work-around but man is it slow. I'd rather see juju handle this natively in core so our test tooling can adopt that route rather than continuing to do things out of band.

[Robert Ayres (robert-ayres)]

+1, would really assist with offline deployments

[Siva Gurumurthy (sgurumurthy)]

+1, I need the fix for this bug as well. Please resolve this ASAP

[Siva Gurumurthy (sgurumurthy)]

I should be able to use resources from the bundle

[Horacio Durán (hduran-8)]

Hello, as much as we would like to solve this for 2.1, the release date is upon us and we are a bit overwhelmed with the finishing touches, sadly we could not fit this bug into those touches but will do our best to address it for our next version.

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

This is going to miss 2.2, but we have it planned for early 2.3. Will assign a milestone when work actually starts on it.

[Felipe Reyes (freyes)]

Pull request https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/7669