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StarlingX/Developer Guide

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This section contains the steps for building a StarlingX ISO from Master branch.

Requirements

The recommended minimum requirements include:

Hardware Requirements

A workstation computer with:

  • Processor: x86_64 is the only supported architecture
  • Memory: At least 32GB RAM
  • Hard Disk: 500GB HDD
  • Network: Network adapter with active Internet connection

Software Requirements

A workstation computer with:

Development Environment Setup

This section describes how to set up a StarlingX development system on a workstation computer. After completing these steps, you will be able to build a StarlingX ISO image on the following Linux distribution:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit

Update Your Operating System

Before proceeding with the build, ensure your OS is up to date. You’ll first need to update the local database list of available packages:

$ sudo apt-get update

Installation Requirements and Dependencies

    Git

  1. Install the required packages in an Ubuntu host system with:
    $ sudo apt-get install make git curl
    
  2. Make sure to setup your identity
    $ git config --global user.name "Name LastName"
    $ git config --global user.email "Email Address"
    
  3. Docker CE

  4. Install the required Docker CE packages in an Ubuntu host system. See Get Docker CE for Ubuntu for more information.

  5. Android Repo Tool

  6. Install the required Android Repo Tool in an Ubuntu host system. Follow the 2 steps in "Installing Repo" section from Installing Repo to have Andriod Repo Tool installed.

  7. Install Public SSH Key

    1. Follow these instructions on GitHub to Generate a Public SSH Key and then upload your public key to your GitHub and Gerrit account profiles:

    Install stx-tools project

    1. Under your $HOME directory, clone the <stx-tools> project
      $ cd $HOME
      $ git clone https://git.starlingx.io/stx-tools
      

    Create a Workspace Directory

    1. Create a starlingx workspace directory on your workstation computer. Usually, you’ll want to create it somewhere under your user’s home directory.
      $ mkdir -p $HOME/starlingx/
      

    Build the CentOS Mirror Repository

    This section describes how to build the CentOS Mirror Repository.

    Setup Repository Docker Container

    Run the following commands under a terminal identified as "One".

    1. Navigate to the <$HOME/stx-tools>/centos-mirror-tool project directory:
      $ cd $HOME/stx-tools/centos-mirror-tools/
      
    2. If necessary you might have to set http/https proxy in your Dockerfile before building the docker image.
      ENV http_proxy " http://your.actual_http_proxy.com:your_port "
      ENV https_proxy " https://your.actual_https_proxy.com:your_port "
      ENV ftp_proxy " http://your.actual_ftp_proxy.com:your_port "
      RUN echo " proxy=http://your-proxy.com:port " >> /etc/yum.conf
      
    3. Build your <user>:<tag> base container image with e.g. user:centos-mirror-repository
      $ docker build --tag $USER:centos-mirror-repository --file Dockerfile .
      
    4. Launch a <user> docker container using previously created Docker base container image <user>:<tag> e.g. <user>-centos-mirror-repository. As /localdisk is defined as the workdir of the container, the same folder name should be used to define the volume. The container will start to run and populate a logs and output folders in this directory. The container shall be run from the same directory where the other scripts are stored.
      $ docker run -itd --name $USER-centos-mirror-repository --volume $(pwd):/localdisk $USER:centos-mirror-repository
      

      Note: the above command will create the container in background, this mean that you need to attach it manually. The advantage of this is that you can enter/exit from the container many times as you want.

    Download Packages

    1. Attach to the docker repository previously created
      $ docker exec -it <CONTAINER ID> /bin/bash
    2. Inside Repository Docker container, enter the following command to download the required packages to populate the CentOS Mirror Repository:
      # bash download_mirror.sh
    3. Monitor the download of packages until it is complete. When download is complete, the following message is displayed:
      totally 17 files are downloaded!
      step #3: done successfully
      IMPORTANT: The following 3 files are just bootstrap versions. Based on them, the workable images
      for StarlingX could be generated by running "update-pxe-network-installer" command after "build-iso"
          - out/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/LiveOS/squashfs.img
          - out/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
          - out/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz

    Verify Packages

    1. Verify there are no missing or failed packages:
      # cat logs/*_missing_*.log
      # cat logs/*_failmove_*.log
    2. In case there are missing or failed ones due to network instability (or timeout), you should download them manually, to assure you get all RPMs listed in rpms_3rdparties.lst/rpms_centos.lst/rpms_centos3rdparties.lst.

    Packages Structure

    The following is a general overview of the packages structure that you will have after having downloaded the packages

    /home/<user>/stx-tools/centos-mirror-tools/output
    └── stx-r1
        └── CentOS
            └── pike
                ├── Binary
                │   ├── EFI
                │   ├── images
                │   ├── isolinux
                │   ├── LiveOS
                │   ├── noarch
                │   └── x86_64
                ├── downloads
                │   ├── integrity
                │   └── puppet
                └── Source

    Create CentOS Mirror Repository

    Outside your Repository Docker container, in another terminal identified as "Two", run the following commands:

    1. From terminal identified as "Two", create a mirror/CentOS directory under your starlingx workspace directory:
      $ mkdir -p $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/
      
    2. Copy the built CentOS Mirror Repository built under <stx-tools>/centos-mirror-tool to the $HOME/starlingx/mirror/ workspace directory.
      $ cp -r $HOME/stx-tools/centos-mirror-tools/output/stx-r1/ $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/
      

    Create StarlingX Packages

    Setup Building Docker Container

    1. From terminal identified as "Two", Workspace Setup
      $ mkdir -p $HOME/starlingx/workspace
      
    2. Navigate to the <$HOME/stx-tools> project directory:
      $ cd $HOME/stx-tools
      
    3. Copy your git options
      $ cp ~/.gitconfig toCOPY
      
    4. Create a <localrc> file
      $ nano localrc
      
    5. # tbuilder localrc
      MYUNAME=user
      PROJECT=starlingx
      HOST_PREFIX=$HOME/starlingx/workspace
      HOST_MIRROR_DIR=$HOME/starlingx/mirror
      
    6. If necessary you might have to set http/https proxy in your Dockerfile.centos73 before building the docker image.
      ENV http_proxy  "http://your.actual_http_proxy.com:your_port"
      ENV https_proxy "https://your.actual_https_proxy.com:your_port"
      ENV ftp_proxy "http://your.actual_ftp_proxy.com:your_port"
      RUN echo "proxy=http://your-proxy.com:port" >> /etc/yum.conf
      
    7. Base container setup If you are running in fedora system, you will see " .makeenv:88: *** missing separator. Stop. " error, to continue :
      • delete the functions define in the .makeenv ( module () { ... } )
      • delete the line 19 in the Makefile and ( NULL := $(shell bash -c "source buildrc ... ).
      $ make base-build
      
    8. Build container setup
      $ make build
      
    9. Verify environment variables
      $ bash tb.sh env
      
    10. Build container run
      $ bash tb.sh run
      
    11. Execute the built container:
      $ bash tb.sh exec
      

    Download Source Code Repositories

    1. From terminal identified as "Two", now inside the Building Docker container, Internal environment
      $ eval $(ssh-agent)
      $ ssh-add
      
    2. Repo init
      $ cd $MY_REPO_ROOT_DIR
      $ repo init -u https://git.starlingx.io/stx-manifest -m default.xml
      
    3. Repo sync
      $ repo sync
      
    4. Temporal! Only Branch Master Check if the following Gerrit Reviews are merged, if not, cherry pick them
      None
    5. Tarballs Repository
      $ ln -s /import/mirrors/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/downloads/ $MY_REPO/stx/
      

      Alternatively you can run the populate_downloads.sh script to copy the tarballs instead of using a symlink.

      $ populate_downloads.sh /import/mirrors/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/
      
    6. Outside the container

    7. From another terminal identified as "Three", Mirror Binaries
      $ mkdir -p $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/tis-installer
      $ cp $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/images/pxeboot/initrd.img $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/tis-installer/initrd.img-stx-0.2
      $ cp $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/tis-installer/vmlinuz-stx-0.2
      $ cp $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/Binary/LiveOS/squashfs.img $HOME/starlingx/mirror/CentOS/tis-installer/squashfs.img-stx-0.2
      

    Build Packages

    1. Back to the Building Docker container, terminal identified as "Two"
    2. Temporal! Build-Pkgs Errors Be prepared to have some missing / corrupted rpm and tarball packages generated during StarlingX/Developer_Guide#Build_the_CentOS_Mirror_Repository which will make the next step to fail, if that happens please download manually those missing / corrupted packages.
    3. Update the symbolic links
      $ generate-cgcs-centos-repo.sh /import/mirrors/CentOS/stx-r1/CentOS/pike/
      
    4. Build-Pkgs
      $ build-pkgs
      
    5. Optional! Generate-Cgcs-Tis-Repo
      This step is optional but will improve performance on subsequent builds. The cgcs-tis-repo has the dependency information that sequences the build order; To generate or update the information the following command needs to be executed after building modified or new packages.
    6. $ generate-cgcs-tis-repo
      

    Build StarlingX ISO

    1. Build-Iso
      $ build-iso
      

    Build installer

    To get your StarlingX ISO ready to use, you will need to create the init files that will be used to boot the ISO as well to boot additional controllers and compute nodes. Note that this procedure only is needed in your first build and every time the kernel is upgraded.

    Once you had run build-iso, run:

    $ build-pkgs --installer
    

    This will build rpm and anaconda packages. Then run:

    $ update-pxe-network-installer
    

    The update-pxe-network-installer covers the steps detailed in $MY_REPO/stx/stx-metal/installer/initrd/README. This script will create three files on /localdisk/loadbuild/<user>/<project>/pxe-network-installer/output.

    new-initrd.img
    new-squashfs.img
    new-vmlinuz

    Then, rename them to:

    initrd.img-stx-0.2
    squashfs.img-stx-0.2
    vmlinuz-stx-0.2

    There are two ways to use these files:

    1. Store the files in the /import/mirror/CentOS/tis-installer/ folder for future use.
    2. Store it in an arbitrary location and modify the $MY_REPO/stx/stx-metal/installer/pxe-network-installer/centos/build_srpm.data file to point to these files.

    Now, the pxe-network-installer package needs to be recreated and the ISO regenerated.

    $ build-pkgs --clean pxe-network-installer
    $ build-pkgs pxe-network-installer
    $ build-iso
    

    Now your ISO should be able to boot.

    Additional notes

    • In order to get the first boot working this complete procedure needs to be done. However, once the init files are created, these can be stored in a shared location where different developers can make use of them. Updating these files is not a frequent task and should be done whenever the kernel is upgraded.
    • StarlingX is in active development, so it is possible that in the future the 0.2 version will change to a more generic solution.