[release-notes] some notes on the reduced size of cloud images
Pete Travis
immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 27 03:41:12 UTC 2014
commit 6e4617e269daf7a8bc3a9069c0c6a0ef474944e5
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at 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(-)
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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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