Juju plugins

Plugins are commands which work with Juju, but which are not part of the core code. Some plugins are provided with your Juju install (e.g. 'juju-metadata') because they contain functionality essential to some operations, others are just useful tools created by the community.

Community plugins

There is a github project collecting all sorts of useful plugins created for the Juju ecosystem. You can check out further documentation on the plugins and how to install them on the Github project page.

Running a plugin

A Juju plugin is any executable code in your $PATH which begins 'juju-'. Although you can run these independently of the Juju command line, Juju will also wrap these commands so they can be run within Juju. For example:

juju-metadata generate

Can be executed within Juju by entering:

juju metadata generate

Switches, flags and arguments

There is potential confusion when a plugin accepts a switch or flag; Juju needs to be able to differentiate between options intended for Juju and ones intended for the plugin. In this case any options for the plugin should be preceeded by ' -- '. For example:

juju foo -- -bar --baz qux