[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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