Hi all, I've started playing with and deploying my "ubuntu-mirror" charm, that leverages the excellent "storage" subordinate charm to create full ubuntu mirrors.
That allows you to mirror a lot of the bits that make up ubuntu: the apt repositories of course, but also cdimages, releases, ports and cloud-images, and hopefully more in the near future (the MAAS images are in the pipe, too, for example). I've kicked the tires and deployed the full mirror a couple of times, and I think it's now time for more eyes to look at the code, and hopefully somebody else will find it useful. For what it's worth, I am currently using a very similar setup as an official Ubuntu archive and it seems to be doing pretty good. The code lives at: lp:~tribaal/charms/trusty/ubuntu-mirror/trunk and merge proposals are very welcome, either against the charm or the "ubumirror" package it is using (that I also happen to maintain). You can deploy it with: juju deploy cs:~tribaal/trusty/ubuntu-mirror juju deploy storage juju set storage "nfs" # Or whatever storage provider you have a few Tb on juju add-relation storage ubuntu-mirror # Wait a few hours :) Future plans are roughly: get some tests written (it's a very simple charm, but hey), get some version approved in the "official" charmstore, and add the maas images to the syncing options. I'd also like to randomize the crontab schedules a little if left unchanged, but I've hit a few problems with the approach I took (using peer storage). I'm happy to discuss good ways to solve that, too. Note: I've seen an ubuntu proxy charm around here some time ago - this one is a *mirror*, so it'll rsync a few *terrabytes* of data if you let it do its thing :) It should hopefully not download the whole thing multiple times if you scale out, however, so "add-unit" away! Hope this helps somebody somewhere :) - Chris -- Juju mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
