{"id":10929,"date":"2018-07-09T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:15:17","slug":"ubuntu-goes-minimal-but-still-much-bigger-than-alpine-linux-cosies-up-to-google-cloud-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10929-ubuntu-goes-minimal-but-still-much-bigger-than-alpine-linux-cosies-up-to-google-cloud-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu goes minimal (but still much bigger than Alpine Linux), cosies up to Google Cloud Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ubuntu.com\/2018\/07\/09\/minimal-ubuntu-released\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> \u201cMinimal Ubuntu\u201d, a cut-down server image designed for containerised deployments. The Docker image for Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 is 29MB:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Editors, documentation, locales and other user-oriented features of Ubuntu Server have been removed. What remains are only the vital components of the boot sequence.&nbsp; Images still contain ssh, apt and snapd so you can connect and install any package you\u2019re missing. The <strong>unminimize<\/strong> tool lets you \u2018rehydrate\u2019 your image into a familiar Ubuntu server package set, suitable for command line interaction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>says Canonical.<\/p>\n<p>29MB is pretty small; but not as small as <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.docker.com\/_\/alpine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alpine Linux images<\/a>, commonly used by Docker, which are nearer 5MB. Of course these image sizes soon increase when you add the applications you need. <\/p>\n<p>I pulled Ubuntu 18.04 from Docker Hub and the image size is 31.26MB so this hardly seems a breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p>Canonical quotes Paul Nash, Group Product Manager for Google Cloud Platform, in its press release. The image is being made available initially for Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxcontainers.org\/lxd\/\" target=\"_blank\">LXD<\/a>, and KVM\/OpenStack. The kernel has been optimized for each deployment, so the downloadable image is optimized for KVM and slightly different than the AWS or GCP versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu has announced \u201cMinimal Ubuntu\u201d, a cut-down server image designed for containerised deployments. The Docker image for Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 is 29MB: Editors, documentation, locales and other user-oriented features of Ubuntu Server have been removed. What remains are only the vital components of the boot sequence.&nbsp; Images still contain ssh, apt and snapd so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10929-ubuntu-goes-minimal-but-still-much-bigger-than-alpine-linux-cosies-up-to-google-cloud-platform.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubuntu goes minimal (but still much bigger than Alpine Linux), cosies up to Google Cloud Platform<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,52,1519],"tags":[183,1204,1545,545,924],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-cloud-computing","category-linux","category-tech","tag-aws","tag-canonical","tag-google-cloud-platform","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10930,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions\/10930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}