update-public-clouds does not appear to update controllers list of regions

[David Lawson]

So we have a 2.6.8 controller and client, update-public-clouds has been run and it still doesn't seem to have a complete region list:

$ juju update-public-clouds
Fetching latest public cloud list...
This client's list of public clouds is up to date, see `juju clouds --local`.
$ juju add-model testme azure/francecentral
ERROR region "francecentral" not found (expected one of ["australiaeast" "australiasoutheast" "brazilsouth" "canadacentral" "canadaeast" "centralindia" "centralus" "eastasia" "eastus" "eastus2" "japaneast" "japanwest" "koreacentral" "koreasouth" "northcentralus" "northeurope" "southcentralus" "southeastasia" "southindia" "uksouth" "ukwest" "westcentralus" "westeurope" "westindia" "westus" "westus2"])

$ juju controllers
Use --refresh option with this command to see the latest information.

Controller Model User Access Cloud/Region Models Nodes HA Version
jaas-azure-westeurope-001* controller admin superuser azure/westeurope 72 134 3 2.6.8
$ juju --version
2.6.8-trusty-amd64

What do we need to do to get the region list updated?

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

At the moment, the update of the controller clouds is a 2-step process:

1. Update clouds on your local client, 'juju update-public-clouds';
2. Update desired cloud on the controller, 'juju update-cloud <blah>'.

We do have plans to change 'update-cloud' command to be able to update controller clouds directly, making Step 1 obsolete.

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

Step 1, getting 'update-cloud' to support updating public clouds: https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/10876

[Anastasia (anastasia-macmood)]

PR: https://github.com/juju/juju/pull/10883