cloud images and lxc

[Kapil Thangavelu]

Excerpts from Scott Moser's message of 2012-03-20 11:06:48 -0400:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Kapil Thangavelu wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > per bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/915520
> > "local provider should use cloud images"
> 
> For what its worth, there is now:
>    lxc-create -t ubuntu-cloud
> which should do most of your work for you.
> 
> You can pass '--userdata' to get your juju cloud-init user data run.
> 
> This will only work for precise and oneiric systems, but I think thats
> probably enough for you.
> 
> > i was looking around for what we could do to solve the package selection gap
> > between the minimal lxc containers we get by default and the cloud-images we use
> > in other providers. We've had discussions before about just using the cloud-images
> > on lxc, but its clear we don't have the availability to make that happen for
> > 12.04. As an easy to implement alternative i've been thinking we could just
> > install the package set when we customize the 'template' container that we clone
> > for units via
> >
> > sudo apt-get install tasksel && tasksel --task-packages cloud-image | xargs sudo
> > apt-get install
> 
> sudo apt-get install cloud-image^
> 
> That is the task cloud-image.  (The '^' makes it a task, and then you dont
> need tasksel).
> 
> 
> Personally, I'd rather you use the images, the lxc-create uses a tarball
> download.


The ubuntu-cloud template looks perfect. 
Thanks.

Kapil