Thanks for calling this out, Simon! We should be shouting this from the
rooftops and celebrating in the streets.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:42 AM Stuart Bishop <stuart.bis...@canonical.com>
wrote:

> On 23 February 2017 at 23:20, Simon Davy <simon.d...@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > One thing that seems to have landed in 2.1, which is worth noting IMO, is
> > the local juju lxd image aliases.
> >
> > tl;dr: juju 2.1 now looks for the lxd image alias juju/$series/$arch in
> the
> > local lxd server, and uses that if it finds it.
> >
> > This is amazing. I can now build a local nightly image[1] that
> pre-installs
> > and pre-downloads a whole set of packages[2], and my local lxd units
> don't
> > have to install them when they spin up. Between layer-basic and Canonical
> > IS' basenode, for us that's about 111 packages that I don't need to
> install
> > on every machine in my 10 node bundle. Took my install hook times from
> 5min+
> > each to <1min, and probably halfs my initial deploy time, on average.
>
> Ooh, thanks for highlighting this! I've needed this feature for a long
> time for exactly the same reasons.
>
>
> > [2] my current nightly cron:
> > https://gist.github.com/bloodearnest/3474741411c4fdd6c2bb64d08dc75040
>
> /me starts stealing
>
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