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This is a re-factor of element_dependencies to achieve two things -- centralising override policy and storing path names. Firstly we want to make the override policy for elements completely explicit. Currently, elements that wish to copy parts of other elements walk ELEMENTS_PATH themselves and look for elements in IMAGE_ELEMENT. How they handle duplicate elements can differ, leading to inconsistent behaviour. We introduce logic in element-info to find elements in each of the directories in ELEMENT_PATHS in *reverse* order -- that is to say, earlier entries in the paths will overwrite later ones. For example ELEMENT_PATHS=foo:bar:baz will mean that "foo/element" will override "baz/element", since "foo" is first. This should be sane to anyone familiar with $PATH. Documentation is clarified around this point and a test-case is added. The second thing is that we want to keep the complete path of the elements we have chosen. We want the aforementioned elements that walk the element list to use these canonical paths to pickup files; this way they don't need to make local decisions about element overrides, but can simply iterate a list and copy/merge files if they exist. A follow-on change (I7092e1845942f249175933d67ab121188f3511fd) will expose this data in a separate variable that can be parsed by elements (a further follow-on I0a64b45e9f2cfa28e84b2859d76b065a6c4590f0 modifies the elements to use this information). Thus this does not change the status-quo -- elements that are walking ELEMENTS_PATH themselves and can/will continue doing that. Change-Id: I2a29861c67de2d25c595cb35d850e92807d26ac6
Image building tools for OpenStack
diskimage-builder is a flexible suite of components for
building a wide-range of disk images, filesystem images and ramdisk
images for use with OpenStack.
This repository has the core functionality for building such images, both virtual and bare metal. Images are composed using elements; while fundamental elements are provided here, individual projects have the flexibility to customise the image build with their own elements.
For example:
$ DIB_RELEASE=trusty disk-image-create -o ubuntu-trusty.qcow2 vm ubuntuwill create a bootable Ubuntu Trusty based qcow2
image.
diskimage-builder is useful to anyone looking to produce
customised images for deployment into clouds. These tools are the
components of TripleO that are
responsible for building disk images. They are also used extensively to
build images for testing OpenStack itself, particularly with nodepool.
Platforms supported include Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.
Full documentation, the source of which is in
doc/source/, is published at:
Copyright
Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Copyright (c) 2012 NTT DOCOMO, INC.
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
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.