6. Deploy server images

Prepared server images can be downloaded or created manually with packer.

6.1. Download and install base images

TODO: write documentation about downloading ubuntu2204 and debian-11-amd64-20210814-734

6.2. Download and install server images

There are pre-built server images at https://aecidimages.ait.ac.at. The testbedimage-tool can import all prebuild images to the openstack-project:

$ pip3 install testbedimage
$ export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
$ . myproject-openrc.sh
$ testbedimage import_images

6.3. Build server images manually

In the directory packer there is a separate directory for each server image. It is neccessary to manually create the file “default.json” in each directory. You need to copy default.json.example to default.json and change at least the values for network and floating_ip_pool. Then you can build an image by running packer:

cd packer/adminpc/playbook
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
packer build -var-file=default.json .

Note

You need to repeat this for every image!