Release 2.1.0

• Created the profile option for the init command; templates provided so far:

  • simple: (the default if --profile not used) a basic kubernetes charm with lot of texts helping the developer to navigate their first charm, including unit and integration tests and tox configuration (related issue)
  • kubernetes: also a k8s charm but more sintetic, aimed for more experienced developers
  • machine: also a sintetic base charm but meant to be deployed in machine-based environments (related issues this and this)

• Use incremental delays (with very small first ones) during the polling of upload status (related issue)

• Instrumented the pack command so timings can be easily captured (related issue)

  • provided a --measure option to dump measurements to a file
  • and a tool to visualize those measurements (related issue)

• Several reactive plugin improvements:

  • Fix charm tools version validation (related issue)
  • Support arguments to charm build command (related issue)
  • Properly check returncode from charm tool (related issue)

• Support both image id and digest when uploading oci-image resources. (related issue)

• Isolated charm_builder.py as a generic plugin script (related issue)

• Better charm's entry point validation (it's a linter now, so it can be ignored or run explicitly)

• Several internal help messages and web documentation improvements.