Multiple changes to save on disk and memory usage

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Change Log
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Changed
+- Image is now based on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 LTS
+- Image download is much smaller, around 1.1G (was ~2G)
+- VM runs on less memory (minimum 4G, recommended 6G)
+- Default user is now ubuntu, password is openstack
+- HexChat instead of XChat
+- Project renamed to Upstream Institute ;-)
+
+### Added
+- `cleanup.sh` script that helps shrinking the image
+
+### Fixed
+- There's no need to fiddle with network settings anymore
+
+
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/kmarc/openstack-training-virtual-environment/compare/v2016.02...HEAD
+

README.md

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ right place.
 
 ### What do I need?
 
-* 6GB of **free** RAM (so at least 8GB in your laptop)
+* 5GB of **free** RAM (so at least 8GB in your laptop)
 * Recent CPU with at least 4 cores
 * 10GB disk space
 * [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/)
@@ -73,6 +73,19 @@ then can be distributed and easily import into VirtualBox
 `./create-training-box.sh` is a handy tool that sets up everything with Vagrant
 and then creates the distributable box file.
 
+#### Requirements
+
+* `sudo apt install libguestfs-tools`
+* [libssl098:i386] is required for vmware vdiskmanager (shrink disks)
+
+    ```bash
+wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/universe/o/openssl098/libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu4_i386.deb
+sudo dpkg -i libssl0.9.8_0.9.8o-7ubuntu4_i386.deb
+    ```
+
+[vmvare-vdiskmanager]: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewAttachment.do?attachID=1023856-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1.zip&documentID=1023856
+[libssl098:i386]: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/universe/o/openssl098/
+
 ### Learn how to easily set up devstack
 
 * [install-base.sh](install-base.sh) and 
@@ -86,8 +99,11 @@ After booting up the virtual machine, start setting up devstack. It takes around
 10 minutes to finish, until then you can get familiar with the environment the
 VM provides you with.
 
-Open up a terminal and run `/opt/devstack/stack.sh`. To reduce memory usage in
-your VM, also run `optimize-memory`.
+To set up an OpenStack installation with devstack, open a terminal and run:
+
+```bash
+/opt/devstack/stack.sh && optimize-memory
+```
 
 The four main software you will be using from the desktop during the training
 are
@@ -116,7 +132,7 @@ default security groups are not modified, so if you want to ping or SSH into
 your VM, you need to add the correct security rules (ICMP In/Egress from all,
 SSH ingress from all). Also beware that sometimes Horizon logs you in into the
 wrong project. To use the private networking by default, you need to log in as
-the default `demo` user (password: `admin`) and select `demo` as project.
+the default `demo` user (password: `openstack`) and select `demo` as project.
 
 Screenshots
 -----------

Vagrantfile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
     config.vm.hostname = "upstream-training"
     config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
     config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
-        vb.memory = "4608"
+        vb.memory = "4096"
         vb.cpus = 2
         vb.name = "upstream-training"
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--clipboard", "bidirectional"]
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--accelerate3d", "on"]
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "32"]
         vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natnet1", "192.168.10/24"]
+        # Xenial COM1 port logging
+        vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "disconnected"]
     end
     config.vm.provision :shell, inline: "/vagrant/install-base.sh",
         privileged: false, keep_color: true
@@ -22,6 +24,7 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
     config.vm.provision :shell, inline: "/vagrant/cleanup.sh",
         privileged: false, keep_color: true
     config.vm.box_check_update = true
+    config.vm.graceful_halt_timeout = 180
     config.ssh.forward_x11 = true
     config.ssh.forward_agent = true
 end

cleanup.sh

@@ -1,13 +1,31 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+# Remove older kernels
+OLDS=$(dpkg -l | awk '/linux-image-[0-9]/{ print $2 }' \
+               | sort -r \
+               | sed 's/linux-image-\(.*\)-generic/\1/g' \
+               | tail -n +2)
+for old in $OLDS; do
+    sudo apt autoremove --purge  -y ".*$old.*"
+done
+
+# Empty user caches
+rm -rf ~/.cache
+sudo rm -rf /root/.cache
+
+# Remove compiled pyc files
+sudo updatedb
+for pyc in $(locate -- *.pyc); do
+    sudo rm -rf "$pyc"
+done
+sudo updatedb
+
+# Remove unused packages
+sudo apt autoremove --purge -y humanity-icon-theme snapd
+
 # Empty packages cache
 sudo apt clean
 
-# Remove compiled pyc files
-sudo updatedb
-for pyc in $(locate *.pyc); do
-    sudo rm -rf $pyc
-done
-
-# Empty user caches
-rm -rf ~/.cache/*
+# Zero out unused space
+dd if=/dev/zero of=~/ZERO bs=1M status=progress
+rm -rf ~/ZERO

create-training-box.sh

@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+VDISKMANAGER_DOWNLOAD='https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewAttachment.do?attachID=1023856-vdiskmanager-linux.7.0.1.zip&documentID=1023856'
+
 vagrant up
 vagrant halt
 
+if [[ ! -e dist/vmware-vdiskmanager ]]; then
+    wget "$VDISKMANAGER_DOWNLOAD" -O /tmp/vmware-vdiskmanager.zip
+    unzip /tmp/vmware-vdiskmanager.zip -d dist/
+    mv dist/*vmware-vdiskmanager* dist/vmware-vdiskmanager
+fi
+
+VMDK=$(vboxmanage showvminfo upstream-training --machinereadable \
+                  | grep SCSI-0-0 \
+                  | cut -d'"' -f4)
+
+echo "Schrinking image..."
+./dist/vmware-vdiskmanager -k "$VMDK"
+
 echo "Creating Virtual Appliance..."
 vboxmanage sharedfolder remove upstream-training --name vagrant
 vboxmanage export upstream-training \

files/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51no-recommends-suggests

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+APT::Install-Suggests "0";
+APT::Install-Recommends "0";

files/etc/rc.local

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 #
 # By default this script does nothing.
 
-dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap.img bs=1M count=2048 >> /tmp/rc.local.log 2>&1
-mkswap /swap.img >> /tmp/rc.local.log 2>&1
-swapon /swap.img >> /tmp/rc.local.log 2>&1
+dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap.img bs=1M count=2048
+mkswap /swap.img
+swapon /swap.img
 exit 0

files/etc/rc6.d/K99remove-swap

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh 
-
-swapoff -a
-rm -rf /home/vagrant/swap.img

files/home/ubuntu/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 <channel name="xsettings" version="1.0">
   <property name="Net" type="empty">
-    <property name="ThemeName" type="string" value="Xfce"/>
-    <property name="IconThemeName" type="string" value="Tango"/>
+    <property name="ThemeName" type="string" value="Adwaita"/>
+    <property name="IconThemeName" type="string" value="Adwaita"/>
     <property name="DoubleClickTime" type="empty"/>
     <property name="DoubleClickDistance" type="empty"/>
     <property name="DndDragThreshold" type="empty"/>

files/opt/devstack/local.conf

@@ -4,7 +4,16 @@
 # packages
 #OFFLINE=True
 
-ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
+ADMIN_PASSWORD=openstack
 DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
 RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
 SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
+
+# Git fine tuning. HTTPS is usually enabled on firewalls.
+# Depth should be only one for upstream training purposes
+GIT_DEPTH=1
+GIT_BASE=https://git.openstack.org
+
+# Let's save some memory
+API_WORKERS=1
+

files/usr/local/bin/optimize-memory

@@ -1,39 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# Tune mysql
-sudo tee -a /etc/mysql/my.cnf << EOF
-# Courtesy of Morgan Tocker
-# http://www.tocker.ca/2014/03/10/configuring-mysql-to-use-minimal-memory.html
-[mysqld]
-innodb_buffer_pool_size=5M
-innodb_log_buffer_size=256K
-query_cache_size=0
-key_buffer_size=8
-thread_cache_size=0
-host_cache_size=0
-innodb_ft_cache_size=1600000
-innodb_ft_total_cache_size=32000000
-
-# per thread or per operation settings
-thread_stack=131072
-sort_buffer_size=32K
-read_buffer_size=8200
-read_rnd_buffer_size=8200
-max_heap_table_size=16K
-tmp_table_size=1K
-bulk_insert_buffer_size=0
-join_buffer_size=128
-net_buffer_length=1K
-innodb_sort_buffer_size=64K
-
-#settings that relate to the binary log (if enabled)
-binlog_cache_size=4K
-binlog_stmt_cache_size=4K
-
-EOF
-
-sudo service mysql restart
-
 # Set Apache WSGI modules' process and thread count
 sudo sed -i '/WSGIDaemonProcess/s/processes=[0-9]*/processes=1/g' /etc/apache2/sites-available/horizon.conf
 sudo sed -i '/WSGIDaemonProcess/s/threads=[0-9]*/threads=5/g'     /etc/apache2/sites-available/horizon.conf

install-base.sh

@@ -6,30 +6,24 @@ export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 REPO=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/
 
+# Copy configs
+sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/etc" /
+sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/home" /
+sudo chown -R "$USER:$GROUP" /home/
+
+# Copy scripts
+sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/usr" /
+
 sudo sed -i "s@http://archive.ubuntu.com@$APT_MIRROR@g" /etc/apt/sources.list
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
 
-# Fixing headless dictionaries-common install
-sudo apt install -y dictionaries-common
-sudo /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl
-sudo dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common
-sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
-
 # Install git workflow related software
 sudo apt install -y git gitk git-gui git-review tig
 
 # Install basic TUI applications
 sudo apt install -y htop mc tmux
 
-# Copy configs
-sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/etc" /
-sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/home" /
-sudo chown -R "$USER:$GROUP" /home/
-
 # Set password
 echo "$USER:openstack" | sudo chpasswd
 
-# Copy scripts
-sudo cp -ar "$REPO/files/usr" /
-

install-devstack.sh

@@ -14,3 +14,36 @@ cp -ar "$REPO/files/opt" /
 # Enable OFFLINE mode for next invoking stack.sh to be faster
 sed -i 's/#OFFLINE=/OFFLINE=/' /opt/devstack/local.conf
 
+# Configure mysql to operate with less memory
+sudo tee -a /etc/mysql/my.cnf << EOF
+# Courtesy of Morgan Tocker
+# http://www.tocker.ca/2014/03/10/configuring-mysql-to-use-minimal-memory.html
+[mysqld]
+innodb_buffer_pool_size=5M
+innodb_log_buffer_size=256K
+query_cache_size=0
+key_buffer_size=8
+thread_cache_size=0
+host_cache_size=0
+innodb_ft_cache_size=1600000
+innodb_ft_total_cache_size=32000000
+
+# per thread or per operation settings
+thread_stack=131072
+sort_buffer_size=32K
+read_buffer_size=8200
+read_rnd_buffer_size=8200
+max_heap_table_size=16K
+tmp_table_size=1K
+bulk_insert_buffer_size=0
+join_buffer_size=128
+net_buffer_length=1K
+innodb_sort_buffer_size=64K
+
+#settings that relate to the binary log (if enabled)
+binlog_cache_size=4K
+binlog_stmt_cache_size=4K
+EOF
+
+sudo service mysql restart
+

install-gui.sh

@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 # Set up a desktop environment
 sudo apt install -y linux-image-extra-virtual
-sudo apt install -y xfce4
-sudo apt install -y lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter \
-    --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests
+sudo apt install -y xserver-xorg-input-evdev
+sudo apt install -y adwaita-icon-theme-full gnome-themes-standard \
+                    gtk2-engines-pixbuf thunar xfce4-panel xfce4-session \
+                    xfdesktop4 xfwm4
+sudo apt install -y lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
 # Install basic GUI applications
 sudo apt install -y firefox xfce4-terminal xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin \
-    vim-gtk geany hexchat
+                    vim-gtk geany hexchat
 # Configure virtualbox GUI
 sudo apt install -y virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-x11