commit 6e4617e269daf7a8bc3a9069c0c6a0ef474944e5 Author: Pete Travis immanetize@fedoraproject.org Date: Sun Oct 26 21:40:55 2014 -0600
some notes on the reduced size of cloud images
en-US/Products-Cloud.xml | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/en-US/Products-Cloud.xml b/en-US/Products-Cloud.xml index 3d64200..d3dbcbe 100644 --- a/en-US/Products-Cloud.xml +++ b/en-US/Products-Cloud.xml @@ -7,7 +7,36 @@ <section id="Products-Cloud"> <title>Fedora Cloud</title> <para /> + + <!-- ImageFactory Builds? --> + <!-- Official Docker Image --> + <!-- Adopt your cattle? NEEDINFOd on bz--> +
+ + <section id="Cloud-smaller"> + <title>Smaller Cloud images</title> + <para> + Fedora maintainers have worked to reduce dependencies and and streamline packaging to produce effective Cloud images that are 10% smaller than the previous release. Base <systemitem class="filesystem" >qcow2</systemitem> images are under 200MB, so your Fedora Cloud deployments will use minimal storage resources. + </para> + <para> + The reduced size is made possible by these notable changes: + </para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para> + Fedora packages traditionally include upstream-provided documentation for user or administrator reference, as well as license text. Starting with Fedora 21, Fedora package maintainers have begun using a special location for license files, allowing Cloud images to be built with the license while avoiding the extra space consumed by unneeded documentation. + </para> + <para> + Packages which are included in the official Fedora Docker image, and more, now use a special location for license files, <filename class="directory">/usr/share/licenses/</filename>. + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Kernel packages are smaller due to improved packaging, as described in <ulink url="kernel-packaging" /> + </para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </section> </section>
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