Pavel, I know my team uses packer.io to build our golden images for our
infrastructure. I know we build qcow2 and AMI images and have them uploaded
to our AWS, OpenStack, and RHV instances. I would be willing to sit down
and help test this with you if you would like.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022, 12:19 PM Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hello infra!
Currently, in Copr team we are periodically preparing those kinds of
images for
our VM builders:
- x86_64 AMI image for AWS
- aarch64 AMI
- x86_64 image for hypervisors
- ppc64le qcow2 image (uploaded to Power9 OpenStack and to our Power8
hypervisors)
- s390x qcow2 (built in IBM Cloud)
- internally we build also x86_64 images for OpenStack
The way we do this now is pretty complicated:
- we start with the officially provided Fedora images (AMI/QCOW2)
- we modify and update them using ansible scripts and/or libguestfs
- then the images are uploaded, and tested in our development stack
- and if everything is OK, then these images are used in production
Some more info
https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/how_to_upgrade_builders.html
This is a tedious and repetitive list of tasks, and I'm sure we
should/could automatize some parts. At least it would be awesome if we
could try to trigger the build(s) for all the images by "a single button",
somehow, somewhere... So I am here to ask you how you would do this.
- I thought the answer is Image Builder, but there's a missing support for
Fedora ppc64le and s390x targets for now (rhbz#2040685).
- livemedia-creator, seems to be a bit related to Image Builder but I was
told
some time ago that AMI support is experimental, the docs say
"At this time I have not tested the image with EC2. Feedback would be
welcome."
- There's a Packer software (packer.io) used by testing farm folks (the
tooling
is not available in Fedora yet).
- Koji is able to build some images using Kickstarts. This one looks like
low-hanging fruit. Existing and working solution, we could built on top
of
of the maintained fedora-kickstarts files that we "use" anyway (through
the
pre-built official images). But I'm not sure if our team could be
allowed to
use Koji like this, and provide additional *ks files?
Are there any other possibilities? Opinions?
Thanks, Pavel
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