lxc apt configuration

[Tim Penhey]

On 30/07/13 12:50, Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Stuart Bishop
> <stuart.bishop at canonical.com <mailto:stuart.bishop at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Sidnei da Silva
>     <sidnei.da.silva at canonical.com
>     <mailto:sidnei.da.silva at canonical.com>> wrote:
>     > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Stuart Bishop
>     <stuart.bishop at canonical.com <mailto:stuart.bishop at canonical.com>> 
> 
>     This will work after the charm has been pushed out, but I'm trying to
>     get the provisioning stage sped up. lxc-create is quite fast, but juju
>     add-machine takes several minutes. After running add-machine, I can
>     manually ssh in to lxc container and watch /var/log/cloud-init.output
>     slowly pull stuff down.
> 
> 
> A good solution to this, I think, is to use lxc-create-ephemeral (which
> takes a base, mostly up-to-date image iiuc) instead of lxc-create. Maybe
> this would be a setting in the 'local' provider config. No idea if it's
> on the roadmap of the juju-core team, but I'm willing to take a stab at
> implementing it.

No it isn't on the immediate juju-core team roadmap.  Happy to help with
pointers if needed.

Tim