project-config/nodepool/elements
Matthew Treinish aa87c57ca7 Cap the subunit2sql version in the nodepool scripts
Subunit2sql 0.4.0 was recently released which included a schema change
however the infra db migration takes too long and can't be automated.
(yet?) Until we run the migration we can't use 0.4.0 on any of the
tooling. This caps the version to be less than 0.4.0

Change-Id: I08f113fa904fa962e8f2dc04187ff44e764de47e
2015-03-13 20:48:27 -04:00
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cache-devstack Cap the subunit2sql version in the nodepool scripts 2015-03-13 20:48:27 -04:00
node-devstack Move to using package-installs.yaml 2014-12-11 13:48:13 -08:00
nodepool-base Merge "Support custom static nameserver during build" 2015-03-11 19:02:23 +00:00
openstack-repos Rename config => system-config for nodepool 2014-10-17 21:28:44 +00:00
puppet Merge "Support custom static nameserver during build" 2015-03-11 19:02:23 +00:00
slave-db Reorganizes project-config 2014-09-25 11:41:04 -04:00
README.rst Update dib script usage 2015-03-10 15:58:32 -07:00

Using diskimage-builder to build devstack-gate nodes

In addition to being able to just download and consume images that are the same as what run devstack-gate, it's easy to make your own for local dev or testing - or just for fun.

Install diskimage-builder

Install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install kpartx qemu-utils curl python-yaml

Install diskimage-builder:

sudo -H pip install diskimage-builder

Build an image

Building an image is simple, we have a script!

DISTRO="ubuntu" DIB_RELEASE="trusty" bash tools/build-image.sh

See the script for environment variables to set distribution, etc. You should be left with a .qcow2 image file of your selected distribution.

It is a good idea to set TMP_DIR to somewhere with plenty of space to avoid the disappointment of a full-disk mid-way through the script run.

While testing, consider exporting DIB_OFFLINE=true, to skip updating the cache.

Mounting the image

If you would like to examine the contents of the image, you can mount it on a loopback device using qemu-nbd.

sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16
sudo mkdir -p /tmp/newimage
sudo qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd1 /path/to/devstack-gate-precise.qcow2
sudo mount /dev/nbd1p1 /tmp/newimage

or use the scripts

sudo apt-get install qemu-utils
sudo modprobe nbd max_part=16
sudo tools/mount-image.sh devstack-gate-precise.qcow2
sudo tools/umount-image.sh

Other things

It's a qcow2 image, so you can do tons of things with it. You can upload it to glance, you can boot it using kvm, and you can even copy it to a cloud server, replace the contents of the server with it and kexec the new kernel.