kite-image

kite-image is one of sub-projects of kite, which is to run Linux application or kernel test on public and private cloud platform, such as VMWare ESXi, OpenStck, AWS EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc.

kite-image will help to build public and private cloud image.

Image Building

kite-image will build/update images for different cloud platforms weekly.

Images

Cloud Platform	RHEL 8.2.z	RHEL 8.4.z	RHEL 8.6.z	RHEL 8.y	RHEL 9.0.z	RHEL 9.y
VMWare ESXi 7.0	kite-template-rhel-8-2-bios/kite-template-rhel-8-2-efi	kite-template-rhel-8-4-bios/kite-template-rhel-8-4-efi	kite-template-rhel-8-6-bios/kite-template-rhel-8-6-efi	kite-template-rhel-8-7-bios/kite-template-rhel-8-7-efi	kite-template-rhel-9-0-bios/kite-template-rhel-9-0-efi	kite-template-rhel-9-1-bios/kite-template-rhel-9-1-efi
AWS EC2 AMI SSM (x86_64)	kite-image-rhel-8-2-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-4-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-6-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-7-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-0-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-1-x86_64
AWS EC2 AMI SSM (ARM64)	kite-image-rhel-8-2-aarch64	kite-image-rhel-8-4-aarch64	kite-image-rhel-8-6-aarch64	kite-image-rhel-8-7-aarch64	kite-image-rhel-9-0-aarch64	kite-image-rhel-9-1-aarch64
Openstack	kite-image-rhel-8-2-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-4-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-6-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-7-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-0-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-1-x86_64
Google Cloud Platform	kite-image-rhel-8-2-x86-64	kite-image-rhel-8-4-x86-64	kite-image-rhel-8-6-x86-64	kite-image-rhel-8-7-x86-64	kite-image-rhel-9-0-x86-64	kite-image-rhel-9-1-x86-64
Azure	kite-image-rhel-8-2-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-4-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-6-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-8-7-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-0-x86_64	kite-image-rhel-9-1-x86_64

Image Building

Build ESXi image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=esxi build.yaml

Build Openstack qcow2 image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=openstack build.yaml

Build AWS EC2 AMI image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=aws build.yaml

Build Google Cloud Platform image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=gcp build.yaml

Build Azure image with:

ansible-playbook -v -i inventory -e cloud_platform=azure build.yaml

kite-deploy configuration

You can set these environment variables to configure to run kite-image

TEST_OS           The OS to run the tests in. Currently supported values:
                      "rhel-8-2"
                      "rhel-8-4"
                      "rhel-8-6"
                      "rhel-8-7"
                      "rhel-9-0"
                      "rhel-9-1"

ARCH              Image architecture
                      "x86_64"
                      "aarch64"(AWS ONLY)

VSPHERE_SERVER    The vSphere server hostname or IP address

VSPHERE_USERNAME  Username to login vSphere server

VSPHERE_PASSWORD  Password to login vSphere server

ESXI_HOST         ESXi host name or IP address

ESXI_DATACENTER   Datacenter name

ESXI_DATASTORE    Datastore name

ESXI_FIRMWARE     ESXi firmware, bios or efi

OS_CLIENT_CONFIG_FILE       Absolute path of clouds.yaml for OpenStack auth

AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE AWS credentials file for AWS auth

GCP_PROJECT       Google Cloud Platform project name

GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME    Google Cloud Platform service account name

GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE    Google Cloud Platform service account file path

GCP_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME     Google Cloud Platform storage bucket name

AZURE_CLIENT_ID             Azure principle account client id

AZURE_SECRET                Azure principle account secret

AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID       Azure principle account subscription id

AZURE_TENANT                Azure principle account tenant