Dunedin core sprint results

[Tim Penhey]

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On 28/01/14 02:29, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> On 2014-01-24 8:10, Tim Penhey wrote:
>> Hi folks,
> 
>> This week Tim, Ian, Andrew and Jesse were sprinting our little 
>> hearts out in Dunedin, NZ.
> 
>> Our primary focus was to look at improving closed network
>> support, and making some local provider improvements, with a side
>> of knowledge sharing and induction stuff.
> 
>> I think it has been a very successful week. Jesse hasn't run away
>>  screaming yet, and we have landed some good changes.
> 
>> For the closed network support, we limited ourselves to just 
>> proxies. Juju now has configuration for: http-proxy https-proxy 
>> ftp-proxy and apt, it defaults to these values, but you can
>> provide overrides in the form of apt-http-proxy apt-https-proxy 
>> apt-ftp-proxy
> 
> 
> I thought the goal for apt "proxies" was to be able to specify a 
> different archive mirror to use. (I could be wrong about that.) Is 
> this more about "I want all the LXC containers on my machine to use
> a global apt cache, but I don't need them to proxy all of their
> HTTP access" ?

We talked at the start of the week about which parts of the closed
network support we were going to focus on, and we had the list:

 * http proxies
 * apt proxies
 * extra apt locations
 * overriding locations using /etc/hosts

I had some feedback from some of our guys in IS, and they pointed out
that editing /etc/hosts should be a last ditch effort.  We started at
the top, and realised pretty quickly that both http proxies and apt
proxies had a lot in common, so we did them together.

This isn't just about containers, but they can benefit from it.

Any place that has egress controlled through proxies can benefit from
this.

Tim
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