NAME

       build-openstack-debian-image - build a Debian image to be used with OpenStack

SYNOPSIS

       build-openstack-debian-image --release|-r <jessie|wheezy> [ OPTIONS ]

DESCRIPTION

       The build-openstack-debian-image shell script will build a Debian image which can be used in an OpenStack
       IaaS  cloud.  The resulting (Qcow2 and raw images) contains initramfs-growroot so that the root partition
       will be resized (during the initramfs phase, before mouting anything) to match the flavor  selected  when
       using "nova boot". Later on during the boot process, cloud-init will resize the root partition on the fly
       (resize is performed when the partition is already mounted read-write, since recent kernel allow that for
       ext3).

       Cloud-init is setup to use an Ec2 metadata server, which is what OpenStack is compatible with. A "debian"
       user  will  be used to receive the ssh key from the user data blob. This user is setup without a password
       (eg: adduser --disabled-password).  Once logged as this "debian" user in your new  virtual  machine,  you
       can  "sudo"  to  root  from  that  user,  without  needing a password. The root password is "password" by
       default, and ssh into the root user without using an ssh keypair is disabled by default  (PermitRootLogin
       without-password is set in /etc/ssh/sshd_config).

PARAMETERS

       --release|-r wheezy|jessie

              Sets the release name to be installed. Currently only 2 values a possible: wheezy and jessie.

OPTIONS

       --extra-packages|-e PACKAGE,PACKAGE,...

              Select    the    PACKAGE    you    want    to    add    to    the    image   default   is:   bash-
              completion,joe,most,screen,less,vim,bzip2 Note that this list of extra packages isn't used if  you
              use the --minimal option.

       --debootstrap-url|-u <debootstrap-debian-mirror>

              Select   the  URL  of  the  Debian  mirror  to  use  to  perform  the  debootstrap.  For  example:
              http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian

       --sources.list-mirror|-s <source-list-mirror>

              URL to use when building the sources.list inside the chroot. If this option is ommited,  then  the
              global     http.debian.net     redirector    is    used.     For    example,    you    can    use:
              http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian

       --minimal

              Without this  option,  the  following  packages  will  also  be  installed:  bash-completion  (and
              /etc/bash.bashrc  will  be setup to use bash-completion), joe (the text editor), most, GNU screen,
              less and vim. If you  believe  that  more  things  should  be  added  in  the  non-minimal  image,
              suggestions are welcome.

       --image-size|-is <image-size>

              Select  the image size (default to 1 GBytes if this option is ommited). Only useful if you need to
              use a custom script hook (see below).

       --automatic-resize|-ar

              Reduce the image to the minimum HDD size possible. The  partition  of  the  image  will  be  first
              shrinked  with  resize2fs  -M, then the space it takes will be used to do a 2nd resize2fs adding a
              bit of extra space for the operating system to write runtime data (see below). Since  this  option
              takes a lot of time, it is disabled by default.

       --automatic-resize-space|-ars <suplementary-space>

              Size  of the suplementary space added to the partition after it is resized to the minimum. If this
              option is ommited, then 50G is used. If --automatic-resize isn't used, then it is useless  to  set
              this option, which will be ignored.

       --password|-p <root-password>

              Defines  a  default  root password for your image. This option is dangerous, first because it will
              show the root password to the user of the computer building the image if  using  "ps",  then  also
              because  it is best to not set a default root password at all if possible. However, this option is
              still there, because sometimes, you need to be able to debug your image, and login through the web
              console of horizon. In a production environment, do not use this option.

       --hook-script|-hs <hook-script>

              If you wish to further customize the generated cloud image,  you  can  use  a  hook  script.  When
              called,  build-openstack-debian-image  will  fill up some BODI_* environment variable for the hook
              script to use as per below:

              BODI_CHROOT_PATH path where the image is mounted

              BODI_RELEASE name of the Debian release that is being bootstraped

EXAMPLE

              Here is an example with the short parameter names:

       build-openstack-debian-image -u http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian -s http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian -is  5
       -e libapache2-mod-php5 -hs ~/customize-my-image -ar -ars 100

              And the same but with long names for options:

       build-openstack-debian-image   --debootstrap-url   http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian  --sources.list-mirror
       http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian  --image-size  5   --extra-packages   libapache2-mod-php5   --hook-script
       ~/customize-my-image --automatic-resize --automatic-resize-space 100

AUTHORS

       build-openstack-debian-image  has  been  written  by Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>, with contributions
       from Mehdi Abaakouk <sileht@sileht.net>.

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