tritondatacenter/ubuntu-lx-brand-image-builder

Scripts used for creating an lx-brand Ubuntu image

Ubuntu lx-brand Image Builder

This is a collection of scripts used for creating an lx-brand Ubuntu image.

Requirements

In order to use these scripts you'll need:

• Ubuntu (or Debian) running in a VM or bare metal (required for the install script)
• debootstrap: apt-get install -y debootstrap
• git: apt-get install -y git
• A SmartOS (or SDC headnode) install (required for the create-lx-image script)

Note*: The build scripts currently assume you are running under a KVM ubuntu-certified instance that has a secondary disk mounted to /mnt. The scripts have not been tested on an lx-brand instance.

Usage

1. Run ./install -d <chroot> -m <mirror> -i <image name> -p <proper name> -u <image docs> under Ubuntu to install Ubuntu 14.04 in a given directory. This will create a tarball of the installation in your working directory (named <image name>-<YYMMDD>.tar.gz). See ./install -h for detailed usage.
2. Copy the tarball to a SmartOS machine or SDC headnode and run ./create-lx-image -t <TARBALL> -i <IMAGE_NAME> -d <DESC> -u <DOCS> (substituting the name of your tar file). This will create the image file and manifest. See /create-lx-image -h for detailed usage.

ubuntu-lx-brand-image-builder's Issues

Disable /etc/cron.weekly/fstrim

This doesn't make much sense in an lx-brand image.

Nice to have add-apt-repository out of the box

As of right now software-properties-common and python-software-properties are not included with the base image.

This means add-apt-repository is not present on the host. A lot of guides and documentation tell you to use the tool to add a repository to your host. Example:

add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update
apt-get install oracle-java8-installer