(This is half broken and not ready, but it’s too cool to not tell you about right away.)
The folks over at Google released a new snapshot of mod_spdy for use with Apache.
Thinking this would be a cool way to show off juju’s subordinate feature, Clint Byrum got to work and hacked together a mod_spdy subordinate charm; which means (assuming it works), that we can just tack it onto things serving via Apache and get mod_spdy relatively easy for all the charms that would use it in the store. Neat huh?
Here it is:
http://jujucharms.com/~clint-fewbar/precise/mod-spdy
And here’s how you’d test it:
juju deploy wordpress
juju deploy mysql
juju add-relation mysql wordpress
juju expose wordpress
juju deploy cs:~clint-fewbar/precise/mod-spdy
juju add-relation mod-spdy wordpress
Clint realized that juju does not allow subordinates to open ports for their primaries, so you have to use the open-port script in juju-jitsu.
To do that, after you’ve done the steps above:
bzr branch lp:juju-jitsu
juju-jitsu/sub-commands/open-port your-primary-service 443
https://your-public-ip/ should be SSL, and should be using SPDY if you try it in Chrome/Chromium/Firefox.
This is a rough cut, and not in the charm store yet for obvious reasons, and when I tested it it didn’t even serve the right page, but, at least the error was served over SPDY, heh. But you can immediately see that by using a subordinate charm you can add on a feature to an existing charm, making it a nice way to test something new and shiny.
We’re in #juju on freenode if you want to start whacking on this and making it more deployable, find bugs, and finish the implementation, we can then make this a nice option for Ubuntu Server users. Happy spdying!