[Maas-devel] maintaining a local mirror of maas ephemeral images

[Scott Moser]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Scott Moser wrote:

> Hey all,
>    I know that downloading the maas ephemeral images is a pain for testing
> on re-installation.  since maas.ubuntu.com/images is only available over
> https it can't even be easily cached in a proxy.
>
>    I've put a little tool up at [1] called 'mirror-query' that basically
> reads the /query information at https://maas.ubuntu.com/images/query and
> mirrors it locally.  You can run a local web server and tell maas that
> your ephemeral images come from there.
>
>    For an example, I run the following via cron:
> $ mirror-query --checksum https://maas.ubuntu.com/images \
>     /archive/mirrors/maas-ephemeral
>
>    And serve out /archive/mirrors/maas-ephemeral from
> http://nelson/mirrors/maas-ephemeral
>
>    Then, I can tell maas to use *this* mirror instead of
> maas.ubuntu.com/images by setting the following in
> /etc/maas/import_ephemerals:
>    REMOTE_IMAGES_MIRROR="http://nelson/mirrors/maas-ephemeral"
>
>    maas-import-ephemerals (run from maas-import-isos or
> maas-import-ephemerals) will then use the local mirror.

I  realized i missed the link to the tool:
https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/+junk/mirror-query/