Thanks for calling this out, Simon! We should be shouting this from the rooftops and celebrating in the streets.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:42 AM Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 23 February 2017 at 23:20, Simon Davy <simon.d...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > One thing that seems to have landed in 2.1, which is worth noting IMO, is > > the local juju lxd image aliases. > > > > tl;dr: juju 2.1 now looks for the lxd image alias juju/$series/$arch in > the > > local lxd server, and uses that if it finds it. > > > > This is amazing. I can now build a local nightly image[1] that > pre-installs > > and pre-downloads a whole set of packages[2], and my local lxd units > don't > > have to install them when they spin up. Between layer-basic and Canonical > > IS' basenode, for us that's about 111 packages that I don't need to > install > > on every machine in my 10 node bundle. Took my install hook times from > 5min+ > > each to <1min, and probably halfs my initial deploy time, on average. > > Ooh, thanks for highlighting this! I've needed this feature for a long > time for exactly the same reasons. > > > > [2] my current nightly cron: > > https://gist.github.com/bloodearnest/3474741411c4fdd6c2bb64d08dc75040 > > /me starts stealing > > -- > Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com> > > -- > Juju-dev mailing list > Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev > -- Adam Israel, Software Engineer Canonical // Cloud DevOps // Juju // Ecosystem
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