Installation method with local resources for snap is not supported

[Yoshi Kadokawa]

At this moment glance-simplestreams-sync charm does not support to upload simplestreams snap with Juju resources.
This would be helpful to deploy in an offline deployment.

[Syed Mohammad Adnan Karim (karimsye)]

I agree, we need this for an environment which is offline-ish.
They have local JFrog artifactory mirrors from which they pull images and packages.

[Yoshi Kadokawa (yoshikadokawa)]

This is now happening in on customers deployment. Subscribing this to field-high.
The workaround is to manually install the snap package, and the charm installation will proceed and complete.

[Alex Kavanagh (ajkavanagh)]

This would be a new feature, so it's categorised as wishlist. Also, Yoshi, please could you consider removing the field-high subscription as this most like a missing feature, rather than a major breaking issue, particularly as it has a work-around. Thanks.

[Billy Olsen (billy-olsen)]

As this is a feature request, I am removing the field-high designation. It is something that should definitely be considered for an enhancement to the charm.

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

This is blocking a bundle based deployment in an air-gapped deployment. We have a workaround indeed (thus it wasn't field-critical), but it's outside of the charm so the maintainability and sustainability will be in question.

Other OpenStack charms for example Vault has charm resources support properly.
https://api.jujucharms.com/charmstore/v5/vault/archive/metadata.yaml

And glance-simplestreams-sync was working fine until the switch from deb to snap happened without giving an option to operators to select a method. I know it's arguable but the charm change caused a regression in an air-gapped env. To me, having charm resources support for all snaps is a minimum feature parity expected in OpenStack charms.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-glance-simplestreams-sync/+/806127

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Subscribing ~field-medium.

[Aurelien Lourot (aurelien-lourot)]

Added charm-guide as affected project so we don't forget the release notes. However, based on the fact it has just landed, this won't make it in the 21.10 release, so this will have to be added to the future release notes (22.04?)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-glance-simplestreams-sync/+/806127
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-glance-simplestreams-sync/commit/bf23ef75b257b0cf1e00c9e7850f8bf10d0378b2
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit bf23ef75b257b0cf1e00c9e7850f8bf10d0378b2
Author: Yoshi Kadokawa <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 26 18:35:36 2021 +0900

    Add support for juju resources

    Simplestreams package is now installed via snap. By having the juju
    resources for the snap package, it can benefit in offline environment.

    Closes-Bug: 1921832
    Change-Id: I5f21ca9faff35427281076e142942c3458e71091

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Removing field SLA as it's merged to the charm at least.

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Assigning this to me not to forget.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-guide/+/849151

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/charm-guide/+/849151
Committed: https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-guide/commit/14677dfed1ff76a959d8b998ef2564255a425bcc
Submitter: "Zuul (22348)"
Branch: master

commit 14677dfed1ff76a959d8b998ef2564255a425bcc
Author: Peter Matulis <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Jul 8 17:47:47 2022 -0400

    Fix yoga release notes

    The yoga RNs failed to mention the added support for Juju
    resources to the glance-simplestreams-sync charm and how
    this benefits air-gapped environments due to the necessity
    for the Simplestreams snap.

    Closes-Bug: #1921832
    Change-Id: I72974d0297bcd46f3bd848e973677bbf92e37174