Clark Boylan f5a4c24bd9 Add a nodepool dib script to create /etc/nodepool
/etc/nodepool is required by nodepool to exist after nodes are booted.
We must then create it in our images. Add a finalize step to create this
dir as it isn't necessary until the node boots (not necessary for image
creation).

Change-Id: I42cc32a261a632d127963eb06333d1ef58f6d88d
2014-09-23 16:29:28 -07:00
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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

Install diskimage-builder:

sudo pip install diskimage-builder

Build an image

Building an image is simple, we have a script!

bash tools/build-image.sh

You should be left with a file called devstack-gate-precise.qcow2.

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 devstack-gate-precise.qcow2
sudo mount /dev/nbd1 /tmp/newimage

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.