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Steve Baker 7e38f85724 A new diskimage-builder command for yaml image builds
The `diskimage-builder` command provides a yaml file based interface
to `disk-image-create` and `ramdisk-image-create`. Every argument to
these scripts has a YAML equivalent. The command has the following
features:
- Environment values can be provided from the calling environment as
  well as YAML
- All arguments are validated with jsonschema in the most appropriate
  YAML type
- Schema is self-documenting and printed when running with --help
- Multiple YAML files can be specified and each file can have multiple
  images defined
- Entries with duplicate image names will be merged into a single
  image build, with attributes overwritten, elements appended, and
  environment values updated/overwritten. A missing image name implies
  the same image name as the previous entry.
- --dry-run and --stop-on-failure flags

A simple YAML defintion would resemble:

- imagename: centos-minimal
  checksum: true
  install-type: package
  elements: [centos, vm]
- imagename: ironic-python-agent
  elements:
  - ironic-python-agent-ramdisk
  - extra-hardware

The TripleO project has managed image build options with YAML files
and it has proved useful having git history and a diff friendly
format, specifically for the following situations:
- Managing differences between distros (centos, rhel)
- Managing changes in major distro releases (centos-8, centos-9-stream)
- Managing the python2 to python3 transition, within and across major
  distro releases

Now that the TripleO toolchain is being retired this tool is being
proposed to be used for the image builds of TripleO's successor, as
well as the rest of the community.

Subsequent commits will add documentation and switch some tests to
using `diskimage-builder`.

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README.rst

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=bionic disk-image-create -o ubuntu-bionic.qcow2 vm ubuntu

will create a bootable Ubuntu Bionic 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

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.