On 29 October 2013 07:46, Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> tldr;
> As we look forward to the 14.04 deliverable of cloud images, we're wanting
> to reduce legacy formats and streamline those that we have.
>
> If you're a consumer of the '-root.tar.gz' file then read on.
> The change suggested here will *only* affect the -root.tar.gz file.
>
> We make several formats of images available on cloud-images.ubuntu.com.
> The one relevant to this mail is the '-root.tar.gz'. This is essentially
> a 'tar -cSpzf - /' of the contents of /.
>
> The changes we've just made to trusty are to remove the kernel and
> bootloader packages before creating the tarfile. Essentially doing a
> 'apt-get --purge remove "linux-*" "grub-*"' before packaging.
>
> The reasoning for this is
> a.) the images will then be more similar to the ubuntu core tar files at
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/12.04/release/
> b.) the images are primarily used for lxc, where a kernel and bootloader
> are not necessary or used.
> c.) there is a ~25M reduction in the size of the tarball, and a 100M+
> reduction in the size of the extracted root.
>
> I'm interested in hearing feedback from anyone using these images that
> would be [negatively] affected by the proposed change.
Hi, we use those images (the root.tar.gz) ones for diskimage-builder
in OpenStack. We build both vm and baremetal images from them, and
currently assume that there is a kernel in them (but we do remove grub
from them early on). Overall I think this is probably a good idea, but
we'll need to fixup our code to be a bit more explicit about whether
the output is for a vm or physical machine.
HTH,
Rob
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Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud
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