Juju 2.1.0, and Conjure-up, are here!

[Stuart Bishop]

On 23 February 2017 at 23:20, Simon Davy <simon.davy at 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.bishop at canonical.com>