.. 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. Building JEOS images for use with Heat ====================================== Heat's full functionality can only be used when launching cloud images that have the heat-cfntools_ package installed. This document describes some options for creating a heat-cfntools enabled image for yourself. .. _heat-cfntools: https://github.com/openstack/heat-cfntools Building an image with diskimage-builder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diskimage-builder_ is a tool for customizing cloud images. tripleo-image-elements_ is a collection of diskimage-builder elements related to the TripleO_ project. It includes an element for heat-cfntools which can be used to create heat-enabled images. .. _diskimage-builder: https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder .. _tripleo-image-elements: https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-image-elements .. _TripleO: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO Install the tool (preferably in a virtualenv) and fetch the elements:: pip install git+https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder.git git clone https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-image-elements.git To create a heat-cfntools enabled image with the current release of Fedora x86_64:: export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements disk-image-create vm fedora heat-cfntools -a amd64 -o fedora-heat-cfntools The image may then be pushed to glance, e.g:: source ~/.openstack/keystonerc glance image-create --name fedora-heat-cfntools --is-public true --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare < fedora-heat-cfntools.qcow2 To create a heat-cfntools enabled image with the current release of Ubuntu i386:: export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements disk-image-create vm ubuntu heat-cfntools -a i386 -o ubuntu-heat-cfntools If you are creating your own images you should consider creating golden images which contain all the packages required for the stacks that you launch. You can do this by writing your own diskimage-builder elements and invoking those elements in the call to disk-image-create. This means that the resulting heat templates only need to modify configuration files. This will speed stack launch time and reduce the risk of a transient package download failure causing the stack launch to fail. To create an image that contains hooks needed for SoftwareConfig and SoftwareDeployment, you can follow the steps bellow to build a fedora based image:: pip install git+https://git.openstack.org/openstack/diskimage-builder.git git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-image-elements.git git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/heat-templates.git export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements:heat-templates/hot/software-config/elements disk-image-create vm \ fedora selinux-permissive \ heat-config \ os-collect-config \ os-refresh-config \ os-apply-config \ heat-config-cfn-init \ heat-config-puppet \ heat-config-script \ -o fedora-software-config.qcow2 The image may then be pushed to glance, e.g:: source ~/.openstack/keystonerc glance image-create --name=fedora-software-config --is-public=true --disk-format=qcow2 --container-format=bare < fedora-software-config.qcow2