Hi Chris! Awesome work on the charm, I'm not sure I'll ever need to mirror the entire Ubuntu repository, but if I ever did I'm happy there's a charm for it! I do like that it leverages the storage charm and is scaleout safe (safe for bandwidth + wallet too).
Marco On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Christopher Glass <trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > Juju@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju >
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