diskimage-builder/elements/simple-init
Colleen Murphy 808e8f8bdc Load the 8021q kernel module in simple-init
Vlan support was recently added to glean. However, if the 8021q module
is not loaded, glean will fail to bring up a tagged interfaced defined
in /etc/network/interfaces.d/. Manually attempting to bring up the
interface results in an error[1]. This patch ensures that the 8021q
module is loaded so that tagged interfaces can be brought up at boot.

[1] http://paste.openstack.org/show/480027/

Change-Id: I15d805c07d4b5e1161d831f0393d027e4325137f
2015-12-08 12:59:06 -08:00
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environment.d Simple-init should disable cloud-init 2015-05-11 16:55:02 +00:00
install.d Load the 8021q kernel module in simple-init 2015-12-08 12:59:06 -08:00
element-deps Simple-init should disable cloud-init 2015-05-11 16:55:02 +00:00
package-installs.yaml Add element to process config-drive network info 2015-04-14 13:39:18 -04:00
pkg-map Add element to process config-drive network info 2015-04-14 13:39:18 -04:00
README.rst Add element to process config-drive network info 2015-04-14 13:39:18 -04:00
source-repository-simple-init Install glean from openstack source 2015-04-25 08:45:10 -04:00

simple-init

Basic network and system configuration that can't be done until boot

Unfortunately, as much as we'd like to bake it in to an image, we can't know in advance how many network devices will be present, nor if DHCP is present in the host cloud. Additionally, in environments where cloud-init is not used, there are a couple of small things, like mounting config-drive and pulling ssh keys from it, that need to be done at boot time.

Autodetect network interfaces during boot and configure them

The rationale for this is that we are likely to require multiple network interfaces for use cases such as baremetal and there is no way to know ahead of time which one is which, so we will simply run a DHCP client on all interfaces with real MAC addresses (except lo) that are visible on the first boot.

The script /usr/local/sbin/simple-init.sh will be called early in each boot and will scan available network interfaces and ensure they are configured properly before networking services are started.

Processing startup information from config-drive

On most systems, the DHCP approach desribed above is fine. But in some clouds, such as Rackspace Public cloud, there is no DHCP. Instead, there is static network config via config-drive. simple-init will happily call glean which will do nothing if static network information is not there.

Finally, glean will handle ssh-keypair-injection from config drive if cloud-init is not installed.