[SAC] LXD image management in production

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 01:51:45PM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:
> > Still working on ansible-deployment, I found that the dev-environment is
> > created using ubuntu-18.04 but production is using ubuntu-20.04 instead.
> In
> > order to fix this I'd like to know what's the new policy for images
> > management because many containers in the lxd-hosts are now also using
> > ubuntu-20.04 instead of ubuntu-18.04 but I don't see an "osgeo-ubuntu-
> > 20.04" image installed on them.
> > 
> > The osgeo7 lxd-host has only a osgeo-debian-10 image published.
> > The osgeo4 lxd-host has osgeo-ubuntu-18.04 and osgeo-debian-10 images.
> > 
> > Is it ok to make images available locally in production or are we
> delegating
> > images holding to the osgeo9 host instead ?
> > 
> > --strk;
> > 
> [Regina Obe] 
> I have been building the newer images on osgeo9 and then copying as needed
> to the production servers.
> 
> I was planning to have osgeo9 be the image authority.
> 
> That said there is no policy -- want to start one?

The idea of deploying osgeo9 first, as an image repository, is appealing.

--strk;