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StarlingX Build Tools

The Debian build is completed using a set of containers designed to run in a Kubernetes environment. To facilitate this we are currently making use of Minikube and Helm, later on we will provide versions of the Helm Charts to allow for running builds directly on Kubernetes or StarlingX.

There are five containers required to complete a build:

  • stx-builder: main developer build container.
  • stx-pkgbuilder: Debian package builder (uses sbuild).
  • stx-repomgr: Debian local repository archive (uses aptly)
  • stx-lat-tool: Debian image builder
  • stx-docker: Docker in Docker (build docker images)

At a high level the StarlingX ISO image creation flow involves the following general steps (assuming you have already configured Docker on your system).

  1. Install Minikube and Helm.
  2. Build or download the StarlingX k8s development environment.
  3. Enter the stx-builder pod/container to triger the building task.
  4. Build packages/ISO creation.


NOTE: the build system requires a Linux system with Docker and python 3.x installed. Building on Windows is not supported -- please use a Virtual Machine if necessary. The steps on this page have been tested on CentOS 7 and Ubuntu Focal.

Configure build environment

We need to create and start the build containers, which requires some additional configuration described below.

Install Minikube and Helm

Install Minikube to support the local k8s framework for building. Install Helm tools to manage the Helm Charts required to start/stop/upgrade the pods or the deployments for the StarlingX Building system. Before installing these components please make sure that Docker is available in your environment.

Install minikube (https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/):

   curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
   sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Note: as of this writing minikube v 1.22.0 is current.

Note: minikube requires at least 2 CPU cores.

Alternatively, we can also use a third-party Minikube binary:

  curl -LO http://kubernetes.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/minikube/releases/v1.20.0/minikube-linux-amd64
  sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Install Helm -- you can select the version listed here or the latest released version:

   curl -LO https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.6.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
   tar xvf helm-v3.6.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
   sudo mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/

Add your user account to docker group:

 sudo usermod -aG docker $(id -un) && newgrp docker

Install repo

https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/

Export environment variables

export PROJECT="stx-env"
export USER_NAME="<your username>"
export USER_EMAIL="<your email>"
 
export STX_BUILD_HOME="/build/${USER}/${PROJECT}"
export REPO_ROOT="${STX_BUILD_HOME}"/repo
export REPO_ROOT_SUBDIR="localdisk/designer/${USER}/${PROJECT}"
 
# MINIKUBE
export STX_PLATFORM="minikube"
export MINIKUBENAME="minikube-${USER}"
# or if you prefer to have multiple minikubes for each environment you can add the $PROJECT to the MINIKUBENAME:
# export MINIKUBENAME="minikube-${USER}-${PROJECT}"

#############################################
# Manifest/Repo Options:
#############################################
# STX MASTER
export MANIFEST_URL="https://opendev.org/starlingx/manifest.git"
export MANIFEST_BRANCH="master"
export MANIFEST="default.xml"

For more details about the STX environment variables click here.

Create directories

mkdir -p $STX_BUILD_HOME
cd $STX_BUILD_HOME

Initialize repo

# create REPO_ROOT_SUBDIR and symlink
# symlink is a helper as minikube mounts the stx_build_home as its workspace
# so it works as a shortcut to access the repos
mkdir -p $REPO_ROOT_SUBDIR
ln -s $REPO_ROOT_SUBDIR $REPO_ROOT
 
cd $REPO_ROOT
# download and sync the repos
repo init -u ${MANIFEST_URL} -b ${MANIFEST_BRANCH} -m ${MANIFEST}
repo sync

Init and setup STX

The build tools comes with a script, import-stx, which sets up your PATH and other environment as necessary. This script must be sourced before attempting to use any tools:

There's a number of environment variables you can set prior to sourcing this file, please feel free to review the script and import-stx.README for a full list.

WARNING: minikube can't work if your $HOME directory points to an NFS location, we need to point it to some other local file system by defining $MINIKUBE_HOME in the environment before sourcing import-stx.

The build expects a configuration file, ``stx.conf`` (example) to exist at the root of the build tools working directory. It is a key/value file containing various build options. The ``stx config`` command may be used to add/modify entries in the file.

# Init stx tool
cd stx-tools
source import-stx

# Update stx config
# Align the builder container to use your user/UID
stx config --add builder.myuname $(id -un)
stx config --add builder.uid $(id -u)

# Embedded in ~/localrc of the build container
stx config --add project.gituser ${USER}
stx config --add project.gitemail ${USER_EMAIL}

# This will be included in the name of your build container and the basename for $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR  
stx config --add project.name ${PROJECT}
 
stx config --show
# Show usage information
stx config --help

Start/Create build containers

The ``stx-init-env`` script will download or re-create build (docker) containers, and start them:

cd $TOOL_HOME/tools
bash stx-init-env

The script pulls build containers from DockerHub by default, where a new version is built once per day (ie default container images may be slightly out of date when you pull them). You can force a local re-build as follows:

cd repo/stx-tools
./stx-init-env
# Monitor the status until they are running:
stx control status
# You should see 5 containers on Running state

Once docker images are available locally, you can start & stop them using the ``stx`` tool:

stx control start          # start builder PODs if not running
stx control status       # display POD status
stx control stop          # stop PODs

WARNING: any changes to ``stx.conf`` or (``stx config add`` etc) requires that the PODs are re-started. f you want to make changes to the environment in the build container, use ‘stx control stop’, then ‘stx config’ to adjust the variables, and re-start the containers.

stx control stop
stx config add <...>
stx control start

Entering & controlling Pods

Once the containers are running, one can enter them (think ``docker exec <...> /bin/bash). While there are 5 containers, most build tasks are driven from the "builder" container, which is the default when using the ``stx`` tool:

 # enter the "builder" container
 stx shell

you can enter other containers as follows

 stx shell --container [builder|pkgbuilder|lat|repomgr|docker]

Use ``exit`` command to exit from the node to host environment.

You can use the ``stx control`` command to start/stop & monitor builder POD status:

 # control the Pods
 stx control start
 stx control stop
 stx control status
 # more info
 stx control --help

The ``status`` command will include Helm status, including deployments and the pods. You can use that information to manually enter or troubleshoot POds using munikube or kubectl.

Every time you start/restart Pods

Execute these mandatory steps inside the builder:

 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install less
 git config --global user.name "First Last"
 git config --global user.email your@email.com

NOTE: you may see the following errors from apt. You can ignore this and continue.

 E: Failed to fetch http://stx-stx-repomgr:80/deb-local-source/dists/bullseye/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 10.102.135.193 80]
 E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Build packages/ISO creation

The builder is the container where you will perform most of the actions, such as launching the task of building packages and images.

  stx shell

Refresh the source tree

The StarlingX source tree consists of multiple git repositories. The tool ‘repo’ is used to sync these repositories, if required you can sync the repos from inside the builder:

 cd $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR
 repo sync

After the ‘repo sync’ is done, check the below directory:

  ls $MY_REPO
  ls $MY_REPO/stx
  ls $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR/stx-tools


Before running 'build-pkgs':

Run below command to download the sources of all buildable packages by scanning the repo root $MY_REPO/stx the download directory is: $STX_MIRROR

  downloader -s

All the below lists with build types will be scanned in the repo root $MY_REPO/stx:

  • debian_pkg_dirs
  • debian_pkg_dirs_rt
  • debian_pkg_dirs_installer


Verify that the local repos are created

 repo_manage.py list
 INFO:repo_manage:No remote repo
 INFO:repo_manage:3 local repos:
 INFO:repo_manage:deb-local-build : bullseye : main
 INFO:repo_manage:deb-local-binary : bullseye : main
 INFO:repo_manage:deb-local-source : bullseye : main

NOTE: All 3 repos should be seen only after build-pkgs [-p <package>] is done at a later time.

Download 3rd-party tar & deb files

Run below command to download the debian binary packages (distribution: bullseye) into directory $STX_MIRROR/binaries:

  downloader -b

All the below lists of binary packages will be downloaded:

 $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR/stx-tools/debian-mirror-tools/config/debian/common/base-bullseye.lst
 $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR/stx-tools/debian-mirror-tools/config/debian/<layer>/os-std.lst
 $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR/stx-tools/debian-mirror-tools/config/debian/<layer>/os-rt.lst


You can also run below command to download both sources and binaries:

  downloader -b -s
  # To check all options:
  downloader --help

Currently, the apt sources used to download packages are in the '/etc/apt/sources.list' file in the builder container.

Build packages

WARNING When doing a clean build, you must build python3-setuptools and dh-python before others. We add back a feature that was removed in the tools, and needs some redesign in other areas. Without this bootstrap will fail.

 build-pkgs -p setuptools  #  for reference, if syncing before 28 March: build-pkgs -p python3-setuptools
                                         #  keeping this note so people using old-env still have a way to build, will remove soon.
 build-pkgs -p dh-python

To bulld an individual package:

 build-pkgs -p <name of package>

To build all of the packages available

 build-pkgs -a -b std

And for rt:

 build-pkgs -a -b rt

NOTE: your build may fail due to circular dependencies. You can try building 2 or 3 times as a workaround.

Build ISO

Once you have built all of the packages you can build the iso by running the following command:

  build-image
  ls -al /localdisk/deploy/*.iso

Log files

While inside the build container, log files may be found here:

  • /localdisk/builder.log /localdisk/pkgbuilder.log - top-level build controller log files
  • ${MY_WORKSPACE}/<std or rt>/<package name>/*.build' - individual package build logs