archgce

archgce is a bash shell script library for lightweight deployment to Google Compute Engine from Arch Linux. It provides functions to create a raw disk with Arch Linux installed, and to upload it as a GCE image. Between those steps, the script can install packages and enable services.

It is heavily customized for myself, with my preferred packages, username, GS bucket and some public keys hardcoded.

Requirements

• An Arch Linux host, with:
  • arch-install-scripts
  • syslinux
  • gcloud/gsutil or google-cloud-sdk (AUR)
• For testing:
  • qemu

Usage

Create a deployment script (deploy.sh by convention).

#!/bin/bash

. ./archgce/archgce.sh

export ROOT=$PWD/root

SIZE=4G IMAGEHOSTNAME=example.com gce_create

# Install the program and run any configuration...
sudo make install PREFIX=$ROOT/usr/local
sudo arch-chroot $ROOT pacman -S libbsd
sudo arch-chroot $ROOT systemctl enable program.service

gce_unmount_all
IMAGENAME=example gce_publish

Then authenticate and run it:

$ gcloud auth login
$ gcloud config set project example-id
$ ./deploy.sh

This would create a timestamped GCE image in the example-id project:

example.gfrh.net-2016-02-21-1456028317