VHD was just for testing, raw is more useful for published images.
coreos-install will now be able to install working xen instances:
coreos-install -d /dev/xvda -o xen -c cloud-config.yml
Missed this in 7231b95a, the update zip should still be built when the
usr partition is extracted for generating updates but build_image itself
is not generating and signing the update.
The current generate_update function is now less useful, the important
part that we need is just the partition image now. Also by defaulting to
extracting the partition the old cors_generate_update which is still in
use by devserver can be removed entirely, devserver will just expect the
extracted partition image instead.
Attempting to work around an apparent race in mtools, the command
'extlinux' these days is just the install tool for mounted partitions
while 'syslinux' is for unmounted devices.
Evaluating this as a user config causes it to block on
coreos-environment-setup.service which will wait on networking. This
makes it hard to add extra tricks for testing/debugging situations where
networking is failing. For example, to trigger dhcpcd if networkd dies:
#cloud-config
write_files:
- path: /etc/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service.d/dhcpcd.conf
content: |
[Unit]
OnFailure=dhcpcd.service
[Service]
Restart=no
The new Update() performs the same tasks as the old Resize()
in addition to formatting previously-unformatted partitions. This
allows children disk-layouts to repartition the base layout in
addition to resizing.
I started to move board files under a boards/ directory similar to how
the SDK is under sdk/ but didn't do so everywhere. This should finish
the job so everything is consistent now.
Note: This prefix is only used in developer and buildbot uploads. When
final releases are copied to $channel.release.core-os.net it doesn't use
the prefix since a) I already published urls without the prefix and b)
no sdk files are ever posted to the public release locations.
btrfs isn't designed for small volumes and can run out of space sooner
than one would expect in our current setup, particularly with docker.
To try to improve the situation always create the filesystem initially
as 2GB instead of 512MB using the default settings: metadata is
duplicated, data is single, not mixed. The mixed setting may have been
partly why our performance can be so poor. For the default vm layout
use 6GB instead of 3GB, about what we use for EC2.
Since the new bucket scheme uploads images to a private staging area
first we need to configure the final location to generate vagrant json
metadata correctly.
- Automated builds drop SDK and binary packages into
gs://builds.developer.core-os.net/ and the new download URL is
http://builds.developer.core-os.net/ (COREOS_DEV_BUILDS)
- Change default upload path to gs://users.developer.core-os.net/ for
misc developer builds. Official builds go elsewhere and will just be
configured in buildbot/jenkins so some COREOS_OFFICIAL stuff is gone.
- Automated builds of images go to a private bucket,
gs://builds.release.core-os.net which later gets copied to
gs://alpha.release.core-os.net and friends by core_promote.
The new --developer_data option can be used to specify a path to a cloud
config to bundle into the image. If none is provided but a shared user
password (for core) is set then generate a config to set that password.
This lets us use the same mechanism for setting the default password for
both disk and PXE images.
This image type is the same as the developer image except that it is a
single root filesystem and is bootable via systemd-nspawn. This may
become obsolete eventually when it becomes possible to boot the normal
disk images under nspawn but it is useful for testing until then.
The partition type is defined by the Discoverable Partitions Spec.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/
To make it possible to plop a CoreOS install into a simple
single-filesystem image for use as a container some things like
configuring bootloaders need to be skipped.
To behave more like setup_board/build_packages update_chroot should
fully configure portage to make sure everything is accurate.
Now binhosts are defined in make.conf.host_setup so the static config in
coreos-overlays doesn't need to refer to version.txt. setup_board
already made this change in 7a43a07f.
Define path locations to reduce dependency between static configs in
coreos-overlays and the behavior of the scripts repo. Spreading
configuration across two repos makes everything harder to understand.
Eventually everything should either be defined in profiles in
coreos-overlays or minimal auto-generated config files here in scripts.
Use what was the base image build function as setup/finalize steps in
the dev and prod build functions. This eliminates duplicate code
that mounted and unmounted the filesystem images.
We need some more control over exactly what lands in dev vs prod images
which will require letting them diverge in what is currently the common
base image step. There isn't any real need for the base image in the
first place other than to speed up building both dev and prod images at
the same time but that isn't common enough to worry about.
As part of this cleanup also remove references to CHROMEOS_* variables
and the recovery image that never actually existed in CoreOS.
For generating images for groups other than the one given to build_image
run this script along with the usual image_to_vm.sh commands. To avoid
ambiguity with the 'latest' symlink, this script creates $group-latest
symlinks instead. build_image creates the new symlink too.
