fast containers & dev workflow with juju 1.18

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Kapil Thangavelu (kapil.thangavelu at canonical.com):
> Hi Folks,
> 
> instructions on getting a speedy workflow with local provider (a container
> per second)

Hey Kapil,

sounds interesting - but I don't see a link?  Is it hidden in plain
sight?

> with juju's builtin local provider (running 1.18) if you have btrfs @
> /var/lib/lxc and install squid-deb-proxy on the host, and run juju set-env
> apt-http-proxy="http://10.0.3.1:8000"  you should be able to use the local
> provider with significant speed improvements. (clone for containers package
> caches, you also need to modify the squid deb proxy conf to allow for ppa
> access).  that won't include nested containers or device access (open juju
> bugs for hat) you can however use add-machine kvm:0 to get a kvm machine in
> local provider for greater machine access on particular workloads. you'll
> need to configure the 'network-bridge' option in environments.yaml to point
> to virbr0 so lxc and kvm come up on the same network. The first container
> will see some lag as juju downloads and populates the lxc cloud images into
> /var/cache/lxc and creates a template container for subsequent cloning.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Kapil

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