Ubuntu Core and Snappy
Ubuntu Core and Snappy
Posted Jan 29, 2015 15:35 UTC (Thu) by walters (subscriber, #7396)Parent article: Ubuntu Core and Snappy
For Project Atomic hosts, the actual OS content tends to be around 700-800MB. Though of course this varies significantly based on the input package set. If golang wasn't statically linked it'd be a lot smaller - the 5 Kubernetes binaries weigh in at 50MB alone.
Your 8.5GB number appears to be the default cloud image disk size, but if you use the Anaconda installer, you can choose any partition layout you want. This is a major technological difference between rpm-ostree and snappy; rpm-ostree is fully block layer independent, so it supports plain ext4/xfs, those on LVM, BTRFS, those on LUKS, etc.