Configure Proxy Access

Juju supports proxies and has special support for proxying apt. Proxies can be configured for the providers in the environments.yaml file, or added to an existing environment using juju set-env The configuration options are:

• http-proxy
• https-proxy
• ftp-proxy
• no-proxy

Each protocol-specific option accepts a URL. The no-proxy option is a list of host names and addresses that services can directly connect to. For example:

http-proxy: http://proxy.example.com:9000
https-proxy: https://user@10.0.0.1
no-proxy: localhost,10.0.3.1

There are three additional proxy options specific to apt. Juju's default behaviour is to use the protocol-specific proxy options, but you can specify exceptions for cases where the network has a local apt mirror.

• apt-http-proxy
• apt-https-proxy
• apt-ftp-proxy

For example, with a squid-deb-proxy running on a laptop, you can specify the apt-http-proxy to use it for the containers by specifying the host machine’s network-bridge:

apt-http-proxy: http://10.0.3.1:8000

The proxy options are exported in all hook execution contexts, and also available in the shell through juju ssh or juju run.