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Many cleanups to role READMEs, including: - Added author information where it was missing. - Consistent capitalization of ironic & bifrost - Fixed typos. - Reflowed text where appropriate for plaintext readability. Change-Id: Id6c040408cb2bad1b0fdaf653fc3509d23c9c0bc
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bifrost-create-dib-image
This role uses diskimage-builder to create a bootable disk image or ramdisk.
Requirements
This role requires:
- Ansible 1.9
Role Variables
The role can use the disk-image-create or ramdisk-image-create scripts. Which script is used is controlled by the build_ramdisk variable. The default is false.
build_ramdisk: false
The dib_env_vars are settings for the diskimage-builder environment variables which allow settings to be passed to elements that are being utilized to build a disk image. More information on diskimage-builder can be found at: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/diskimage-builder/
dib_env_vars: DIB_CLOUD_INIT_DATASOURCES: "ConfigDrive" ELEMENTS_PATH: "/opt/stack/diskimage-builder/elements"
The final destination of the image is specified by dib_imagename.
dib_imagename: "/path/to/image.qcow2"
dib_os_element controls which OS will be used to build the image.
dib_os_element: "ubuntu"
dib_elements is a space-separated list of elements that will be added to the resulting disk image.
dib_elements: "vm serial-console simple-init"
dib_packages is a comma-separated list of packages to be installed on the resulting disk image.
dib_packages: "traceroute,python-devel"
All the other command-line options to disk-image-create or ramdisk-image-create can be used by the role. The following is a list of the command-line options, their corresponding variables, and the type of the value to supply. Please refer to the help text for disk-image-create for further information.
| Option | Variable name | Value |
| -x | dib_trace | boolean | | -u | dib_uncompressed | boolean | | -c | dib_clearenv | boolean | | --no-tmpfs | dib_notmpfs | boolean | | --offline | dib_offline | boolean | | -n | dib_skipbase | boolean | | -a | dib_arch | arch | | -o | dib_imagename | /path/to/image | | -t | dib_imagetype | image type | | --image-size | dib_imagesize | size in GB | | --image-cache | dib_imagecache | /path/to/cache | | --max-online-resize | dib_maxresize | size in blocks | | --min-tmpfs | dib_mintmpfs | size in GB | | --mkfs-options | dib_mkfsopts | mkfs flags | | --qemu-img-options | dib_qemuopts | comma-separated list | | --root-label | dib_rootlabel | label | | --ramdisk-element | dib_rdelement | element name | | -t | dib_installtype | source or package |
Dependencies
dib-utils must be installed from pip for the image creation to work.
Example Playbook
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
name: "Build DIB image"
sudo: yes
gather_facts: yes
roles:
- role: bifrost-create-dib-image
License
Copyright (c) 2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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.
Author Information
Ironic Developers