Ubuntu Core LXD images available for testing

[Manik Taneja]

Thank you Stephane. This is super!

Cheers,
Manik

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today I'm pleased to announce that we have our first Ubuntu Core LXD
> images available for testing.
>
> Those images will be re-generated weekly from whatever is the latest set
> of Ubuntu Core disk images. As those disk images aren't refreshed very
> often, it means that the LXD images will typically need a good snap
> refresh after their first boot.
>
> I expect this limitation to go away when those LXD images get picked up
> by the Ubuntu Cloud team and they make their way to the official Ubuntu
> image server as they will then benefit from the same image build pipeline
> used for the Ubuntu Cloud images.
>
>
> In the mean time, our test images are available on
> https://images.linuxcontainers.org and can be used by any LXD user
> running an up to date version of Ubuntu and LXD with:
>
>     lxc launch images:ubuntu-core/16
>
> Should you run into any problem with those images, please file a bug here:
>     https://github.com/lxc/lxc-ci/issues
>
>
> Some extra notes:
>  - LXD passes your cloud-init configuration to the container. However the
>    current Ubuntu Core images have cloud-init disabled. So if you intend to
>    use that LXD facility, you'll need to manually re-enable cloud-init in
>    your container.
>
>  - This LXD image has a mock bootloader which pretends to be grub. This
>    allows for the expected upgrade experience to work. Updates to the core
>    snap will be attempted on the following boot and reverted on failure.
>
>  - Using snaps inside LXD containers only works for unprivileged
>    containers. Setting security.privileged to true on your container will
>    break it. This is due to the way Apparmor namespacing works.
>
>  - Normal LXD security policies apply. So if you intend to install the
>    LXD snap inside your Ubuntu Core container, you'll need to set
>    security.nesting to true.
>
>  - As mentioned, those images are meant for testing use. Supported
>    production images will soon be available on the official Ubuntu image
>    server and will be based on those generated for the cloud.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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> Stéphane Graber
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>
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