Bootstrap is significantly delayed by installing mongodb-server from cloud-archive

[Andrew Wilkins]

In my particular case I'm bootstrapping on Azure in the Southeast Asia region. Installing mongodb-server takes the lion's share of time. I don't have specific times, but it's well over 10 mins, which I think is an unacceptably long wait.

It takes a long time to install because it's coming from cloud archive, which doesn't have local mirrors (?). This won't be an issue for Trusty since mongo will be coming from main and main will be mirrored. That doesn't help people who continue to bootstrap precise, though.

[Andrew Wilkins (axwalk)]

Not sure what the deal is, but I just bootstrapped again so I could measure, and this time it was much quicker; only 56s.

2013-12-10T17:23:11 Launching instance
2013-12-10T17:24:16 - juju-azure-scu8d5c7wi
2013-12-10T17:24:19 Waiting for DNS name.
2013-12-10T17:24:19 - juju-azure-scu8d5c7wi.cloudapp.net
2013-12-10T17:26:51 Attempting to connect to juju-azure-scu8d5c7wi.cloudapp.net:22...............................
2013-12-10T17:26:52 Warning: Permanently added 'juju-azure-scu8d5c7wi.cloudapp.net,138.91.36.166' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
2013-12-10T17:26:58 Waiting for cloud-init to finish..
2013-12-10T17:26:58 Logging to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log on remote host
2013-12-10T17:26:58 Installing add-apt-repository
2013-12-10T17:27:06 Adding apt repository: deb http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise-updates/cloud-tools main
2013-12-10T17:27:07 Running apt-get update
2013-12-10T17:27:21 Running apt-get upgrade
2013-12-10T17:27:42 Installing package: git
2013-12-10T17:27:54 Installing package: cpu-checker
2013-12-10T17:28:00 Installing package: mongodb-server
2013-12-10T17:28:56 Fetching tools: wget --no-verbose -O $bin/tools.tar.gz 'https://axwjujustorage0.blob.core.windows.net/juju-azure-private/tools%2Freleases%2Fjuju-1.17.0.1-precise-amd64.tgz?<redacted>'
2013-12-10T17:28:57 Starting MongoDB server (juju-db)
2013-12-10T17:28:57 Bootstrapping Juju machine agent
2013-12-10T17:28:59 Starting Juju machine agent (jujud-machine-0)
2013-12-10T17:28:59 Connection to juju-azure-scu8d5c7wi.cloudapp.net closed.

[Dave Cheney (dave-cheney)]

I have heard rumours that the `mirrors` are actually `proxies`, so
possibly on the second attempt the proxy had deb in its working set.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Antonio Rosales
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> In my particular case I'm bootstrapping on Azure in the Southeast Asia
> region. Installing mongodb-server takes the lion's share of time. I
> don't have specific times, but it's well over 10 mins, which I think
> is an unacceptably long wait.
>
> It takes a long time to install because it's coming from cloud
> archive, which doesn't have local mirrors (?). This won't be an issue
> for Trusty since mongo will be coming from main and main will be
> mirrored. That doesn't help people who continue to bootstrap precise,
> though.
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[Andrew Wilkins (axwalk)]

There doesn't appear to be anything juju can do here. I tried making sure storage is on the same affinity group, and it seems to make no difference. Closing.