When golden images are OK

[Mischa Taylor]

Great talk from a Chef colleague, Michael Goetz, on a workflow around image creation and Chef - a realistic approach towards configuration management using core OS images for things that don't change frequently - an approach which I also embrace and advocate:

http://www.slideshare.net/mpgoetz/packing-it-in-images-containers-and-config-management

He also created an example of how to apply this approach using Amazon EC2, which is worth looking at:

https://github.com/micgo/dockworker 

[Arthur autohandle]

in http://www.slideshare.net/mpgoetz/packing-it-in-images-containers-and-config-management
on slide 17:
We could use Packer to build Docker images, but then we lose metadata and layering (for now!)

what is the significance of losing: metadata and layering?

https://github.com/micgo/dockworker

in files/default/ubuntu-docker-base.json

how/where is ubuntu-docker-base.json picked up?

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