ironic/doc/source/install/configure-glance-images.rst

Create and add images to the Image service

Bare Metal provisioning requires two sets of images: the deploy images and the user images. The deploy images are used by the Bare Metal service to prepare the bare metal server for actual OS deployment. Whereas the user images are installed on the bare metal server to be used by the end user. Below are the steps to create the required images and add them to the Image service:

1. Build the user images

   The disk-image-builder can be used to create user images required for deployment and the actual OS which the user is going to run.

   • Install diskimage-builder package (use virtualenv, if you don't want to install anything globally):

     # pip install diskimage-builder

   • Build the image your users will run (Ubuntu image has been taken as an example):

     • Partition images

       $ disk-image-create ubuntu baremetal dhcp-all-interfaces grub2 -o my-image

     • Whole disk images

       $ disk-image-create ubuntu vm dhcp-all-interfaces -o my-image

   The partition image command creates my-image.qcow2, my-image.vmlinuz and my-image.initrd files. The grub2 element in the partition image creation command is only needed if local boot will be used to deploy my-image.qcow2, otherwise the images my-image.vmlinuz and my-image.initrd will be used for PXE booting after deploying the bare metal with my-image.qcow2.

   If you want to use Fedora image, replace ubuntu with fedora in the chosen command.

2. Add the user images to the Image service

   Load all the images created in the below steps into the Image service, and note the image UUIDs in the Image service for each one as it is generated.

   • Add the kernel and ramdisk images to the Image service:

     $ openstack image create my-kernel --public \
       --disk-format aki --container-format aki --file my-image.vmlinuz

     Store the image uuid obtained from the above step as MY_VMLINUZ_UUID.

     $ openstack image create my-image.initrd --public \
       --disk-format ari --container-format ari --file my-image.initrd

     Store the image UUID obtained from the above step as MY_INITRD_UUID.

   • Add the my-image to the Image service which is going to be the OS that the user is going to run. Also associate the above created images with this OS image. These two operations can be done by executing the following command:

     $ openstack image create my-image --public \
       --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --property \
       kernel_id=$MY_VMLINUZ_UUID --property \
       ramdisk_id=$MY_INITRD_UUID --file my-image.qcow2

   Note

   To deploy a whole disk image, a kernel_id and a ramdisk_id shouldn't be associated with the image. For example,

   $ openstack image create my-whole-disk-image --public \
     --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare \
     --file my-whole-disk-image.qcow2

3. Build or download the deploy images

   The deploy images are used initially for preparing the server (creating disk partitions) before the actual OS can be deployed.

   There are several methods to build or download deploy images, please read the deploy-ramdisk section.

4. Add the deploy images to the Image service

   Add the deployment kernel and ramdisk images to the Image service:

   $ openstack image create deploy-vmlinuz --public \
     --disk-format aki --container-format aki \
     --file ironic-python-agent.vmlinuz

   Store the image UUID obtained from the above step as DEPLOY_VMLINUZ_UUID.

   $ openstack image create deploy-initrd --public \
     --disk-format ari --container-format ari \
     --file ironic-python-agent.initramfs

   Store the image UUID obtained from the above step as DEPLOY_INITRD_UUID.