[openstack-dev] [infra][diskimage-builder] containers, Containers, CONTAINERS!

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Thu Jan 5 21:24:22 UTC 2017


On 01/05/2017 02:23 PM, Paul Belanger wrote:
> Did my click bait work? :)
> 
> So, over the holiday break I had some time to hack on diskimage-builder and
> create a new (container) element.  I opted to call it ubuntu-rootfs. The basic
> idea, is the most minimal debootstrap chroot for ubuntu.  Everything in, we can
> get a 42MB tarball of ubuntu-xenial.  In turn, with the tarball we can then
> import into docker, lxc and do container things.
> 
> The stack is about 9 deep right now, and would love some feedback. I'm planning
> on giving a talk in devconf.cz in a few weeks on this too. I hope to return with
> some additional feedback on using DIB for building container things.
> 
I'd be interested in extending this to Gentoo at least.  Need to reduce
the stage size somewhat.  I wonder if stage2 is small enough...


-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)

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