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+This repo contains various methods to build an Akanda appliance.
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/README.md b/diskimage-builder/README.md
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+This directory contains elements necessary to build the Akanda appliance with
+the diskimage-builder from the OpenStack project.
+
+Install via:
+
+pip install diskimage-builder
+
+or source at:
+
+http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/diskimage-builder
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/README.rst b/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/README.rst
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+This is the base element for building an Akanda appliance image.
+
+Ansible is required on the local system.
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/element-deps b/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/element-deps
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+install-static
+cloud-init-nocloud
+source-repositories
+ansible
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/install.d/akanda-source-install/70-akanda b/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/install.d/akanda-source-install/70-akanda
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+APP_SRC_DIR="/tmp/akanda-appliance"
+
+[ -d "${APP_SRC_DIR}" ] || exit 0
+
+ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local $APP_SRC_DIR/ansible/main.yml
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/post-install.d/90-fix-locale b/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/post-install.d/90-fix-locale
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# ensure the locale is properly setup
+sed -i 's/^# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
+locale-gen
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/source-repository-akanda b/diskimage-builder/elements/akanda/source-repository-akanda
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+akanda git /tmp/akanda-appliance https://github.com/markmcclain/akanda-appliance.git ansible
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/README.md b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/README.md
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+Install Ansible.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+At Present there is no configuration for this element.
+
+NOTICE
+------
+This element is copied from the OpenStack Tripleo project at
+http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-image-elements/
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/cleanup.d/50-remove-source-ansible b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/cleanup.d/50-remove-source-ansible
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eu
+
+sudo rm -fr "${TMP_MOUNT_PATH}/opt/stack/tripleo-ansible"
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/element-deps b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/element-deps
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+pip-and-virtualenv
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/environment.d/10-ansible-venv-dir.bash b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/environment.d/10-ansible-venv-dir.bash
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -ue
+
+export ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR=${ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR:-"/opt/stack/venvs/ansible"}
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/install.d/ansible-package-install/30-ansible-package b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/install.d/ansible-package-install/30-ansible-package
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -eux
+
+install-packages ansible
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/install.d/ansible-source-install/30-ansible-source b/diskimage-builder/elements/ansible/install.d/ansible-source-install/30-ansible-source
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+install-packages build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
+
+virtualenv $ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR
+
+set +u
+source $ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR/bin/activate
+set -u
+
+$ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR/bin/pip install paramiko PyYAML jinja2 httplib2
+
+$ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR/bin/pip install ansible==1.8.1
+
+ln -s $ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR/bin/ansible /usr/local/bin/ansible
+ln -s $ANSIBLE_VENV_DIR/bin/ansible-playbook /usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/README.md b/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/README.md
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+Install latest pip and virtualenv
+=================================
+
+We have problems with the latest binary package of pip and virtualenv.
+Packaged version of pip can be old and virtualenv can also contain its
+own version of pip. Issues include downloading packages from a local
+pypi mirror that include a wheel package for pip.
+
+The element follows the instructions from the pip website here:
+http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html on how to install
+the latest version of pip. That is to download get-pip.py and run this
+file.
+
+We use source-repositories element to download the file so it will be
+cached and can be overridden to use package if that is required.
+
+NOTICE
+------
+This element is copied from the OpenStack Tripleo project at
+http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-image-elements/
+
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/element-deps b/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/element-deps
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+package-installs
+source-repositories
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/install.d/get-pip-py-package-install/package-installs-pip-and-virtualenv b/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/install.d/get-pip-py-package-install/package-installs-pip-and-virtualenv
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+python-pip
+python-virtualenv
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/install.d/get-pip-py-source-install/01-install-pip b/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/install.d/get-pip-py-source-install/01-install-pip
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -eux
+
+python /tmp/get-pip.py
+pip install virtualenv
diff --git a/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/source-repository-pip-and-virtualenv b/diskimage-builder/elements/pip-and-virtualenv/source-repository-pip-and-virtualenv
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+get-pip-py file /tmp/get-pip.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py