[lxc-devel] Pull request: make ubuntu templates apt proxy aware

[Chris Glass]

(gmail is messing with my signature, that'll teach me to use the web interface)

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Chris Glass <chris.glass at canonical.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Here are the changes I was referring to in my previous email thread -
> these changes make the ubuntu templates aware of squid-deb-proxy
> servers visible to the host.
>
> https://github.com/lxc/lxc/pull/134
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> squid-deb-proxy uses avahi to advertise itself, and so installing
> squid-deb-proxy-client on the LXC host lets apt autodetect proxy
> settings. With this path the proxy settings are consumed by LXC when
> both debootstrapping a new image and inside the container itself.
>
> This makes deploying similar environments (on a development machine
> for example, in a CI lab, or for example using juju) *much* faster.
> One could achieve similar results by setting APT_PROXY or HTTP_PROXY
> when running lxc-create, but the advantage of this patch is that it's
> completely automatic.
>
> The cost for people not using squid-deb-proxy is negligible, this
> patch therefore adds the hook to the default ubuntu and ubuntu-cloud
> templates.
>
> Note: this requires "dbus," to be added to the
> /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/lxc/start-container apparmor profile as
> Stephane suggested in the previous thread (if not using the PPA
> packages).
>
>
> Hope this can be as useful for other people as it has been for me so far,
>
> - - Chris
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