Xenial cloud images

[Patricia Gaughen]

We in the Cloud Image Team wanted to send out a quick update on the status
of cloud images for Xenial Xerus.

In this cycle, we are moving to a new build system.  This has primarily
been prompted by the shift to POWER8 in xenial, as well as the advent of
IBM System Z support.  Instead of building images locally on our Jenkins
host, we will be using Launchpad builders (hosted on ScalingStack, as
outlined by cjwatson in [0]) to build our images.

As you might imagine, this change has required a fairly major revamp of how
we build images, which is still in progress.  The actual changes to the
base image build process are largely in place, but the plumbing required to
automate getting those images on to cloud images.ubuntu.com
<http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/> is still in progress.  We hope to have
this finished by the end of next week and the pipe of fresh xenial images
pumping again.

For now, there is a single xenial cloud image serial on
cloud-images.ubuntu.com.  If you need a newer image (or an image type that
is not yet available) for testing in the meantime, please let me know and
our team will make one available to you.

We're excited about this new system; it will make support for non-Intel
architectures much easier to manage, and increase the pace which we can
enable new clouds and technologies, without sacrificing quality.

Thanks,

Pat

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Patricia Gaughen

Engineering Manager

Cloud Image Team

Certified Public Cloud Development

[0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2015-October/038958.html
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