Thank you Stephane. This is super! Cheers, Manik
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgra...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Today I'm pleased to announce that we have our first Ubuntu Core LXD > images available for testing. > > Those images will be re-generated weekly from whatever is the latest set > of Ubuntu Core disk images. As those disk images aren't refreshed very > often, it means that the LXD images will typically need a good snap > refresh after their first boot. > > I expect this limitation to go away when those LXD images get picked up > by the Ubuntu Cloud team and they make their way to the official Ubuntu > image server as they will then benefit from the same image build pipeline > used for the Ubuntu Cloud images. > > > In the mean time, our test images are available on > https://images.linuxcontainers.org and can be used by any LXD user > running an up to date version of Ubuntu and LXD with: > > lxc launch images:ubuntu-core/16 > > Should you run into any problem with those images, please file a bug here: > https://github.com/lxc/lxc-ci/issues > > > Some extra notes: > - LXD passes your cloud-init configuration to the container. However the > current Ubuntu Core images have cloud-init disabled. So if you intend to > use that LXD facility, you'll need to manually re-enable cloud-init in > your container. > > - This LXD image has a mock bootloader which pretends to be grub. This > allows for the expected upgrade experience to work. Updates to the core > snap will be attempted on the following boot and reverted on failure. > > - Using snaps inside LXD containers only works for unprivileged > containers. Setting security.privileged to true on your container will > break it. This is due to the way Apparmor namespacing works. > > - Normal LXD security policies apply. So if you intend to install the > LXD snap inside your Ubuntu Core container, you'll need to set > security.nesting to true. > > - As mentioned, those images are meant for testing use. Supported > production images will soon be available on the official Ubuntu image > server and will be based on those generated for the cloud. > > Enjoy! > > -- > Stéphane Graber > Ubuntu developer > http://www.ubuntu.com > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > >
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