Load default Ubuntu images with glance about chef-bcpc HOT 6 CLOSED

The catch here is that it increases the size of the downloads even further (~250MB) - so, I'm hesitant to do so by default. If you use vbox_create.sh, we're already downloading ~350MB for the Vagrant box plus all of the various source code and mini images.

The URLs for the cloud images would be:

Precise: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img
Raring: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/raring/current/raring-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

For now, I would probably be okay with adding it to the README. If enough people ask for it, then yah, I guess we can add it out of the box.

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A source for more stable images appears to be:

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/raring/release/

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Oooo. That's very useful. I think you're right about the additional size of the download being too much be default. What would be super useful is a script that just ran this on the head-node optionally.

So one could (at some point) just run:

./add_ubuntu_image.sh

And it would fetch it from the internet, add it to glance, etc. on the head node to avoid much searching.

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Sounds like a worthy pull request for someone! =)

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Just to make it easier - here's the Glance invocation to add a raring image from the above URL:

glance image-create --name='Ubuntu 13.04 x86_64' --is-public=True --container-format=bare --disk-format=qcow2 --file ~ubuntu/ubuntu-13.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img

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I'm going to close this issue for now as no one else has asked for it yet. We can always reopen if someone else really wants this auto-added.

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