sneak/ubuntumirror

Docker image for syncing ubuntu LTS mirrors to reduce network traffic and speed up build times.

Then even your builds (where you can’t specify links to other containers by hostname) will go fast.

Levers

Paths

The mirror stores all the data in a docker volume at path /var/mirror/ubuntu. Map that somewhere else if you like.

Environment Variables

• UBUNTU_MIRROR_ARCHITECTURES
  • default amd64.
  • You may want i386,amd64.
• UBUNTU_MIRROR_CATEGORIES
  • Default main,universe,restricted,multiverse. Will use lots of disk.
  • You may want main,universe.
• UBUNTU_MIRROR_PROJECTS
  • Default bionic,bionic-updates,bionic-security,bionic-backports,focal,focal-updates,focal-security,focal-backports.
  • You may want only focal,focal-updates,focal-security,focal-backports.
• UBUNTU_MIRROR_UPSTREAM - upstream server to mirror from
  • default archive.ubuntu.com.
  • You may want xx.archive.ubuntu.com (where xx is your country code).
• UBUNTU_ENABLE_SOURCE_MIRRORING - do we want to mirror all the source code too?
  • Default ``
  • You may want 1 if you want to use up even more disk for your mirror
• MIRROR_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS - mirror update interval
  • default 43200 (12h)
  • You may want 10800 (3h)

Example Startup

docker rm -f local-ubuntu-mirror
docker run -d --name local-ubuntu-mirror \
    -v /storage/mirrors/ubuntu:/var/mirror/ubuntu \
    --env MIRROR_UPDATE_INTERVAL_SECONDS=3600 \
    --env UBUNTU_MIRROR_ARCHITECTURES=amd64 \
    --env UBUNTU_MIRROR_UPSTREAM=us.archive.ubuntu.com \
    --env UBUNTU_MIRROR_PROJECTS=focal,focal-updates,focal-security,focal-backports \
    -p 8080:80 \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    sneak/ubuntumirror@sha256:7de7cc8245106bb574029a2dedca5aa218af08d802b989cdc7857fb57f876a02

Example CapRover Definition File

{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "imageName": "sneak/ubuntumirror@sha256:7de7cc8245106bb574029a2dedca5aa218af08d802b989cdc7857fb57f876a02"
}

Author

sneak <sneak@sneak.berlin>

License

This software is released into the public domain.