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Berkeley Common Environment provides a common Linux computational environment for classwork and research.
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Evaluate Snappy Ubuntu Core #32

Open davclark opened 9 years ago

davclark commented 9 years ago

There are OVAs and Vagrant boxes here:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/15.04/core/stable/current/

That's probably cheaper than using EC2, but the last time I checked, the packer handling of OVAs was not fully implemented, but I don't remember what the issue was. This is the most recent docs:

https://packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-ovf.html

Dav is excited about snappy because it has the promise of composability (as compared to Docker, which only works with revisions / layers).