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Podvm images with mkosi

mkosi builds a bootable OS image from scratch. This way, we have full control over every detail of the image, especially over the image format and boot process. On the long run, we will implement fully, bit-by-bit reproducible images with mkosi, and use measured boot and an immutable root FS to ensure the image integrity through remote attestation.

Building the image

make

Upload the image to the desired cloud provider

You can upload the image with the tool of your choice, but the recommended way is using uplosi. Follow the uplosi readme to configure your upload for the desired cloud provider. Then run:

# Using -i to increment the image version after the upload.
uplosi -i build/system.raw

If you want to use the image with libvirt, run the following to convert to qcow2 format:

qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 build/system.raw build/system.qcow2

Custom image configuration

You can easily place additional files in resources/binaries-tree after it has been populated by the binaries build step. Notice that systemd units need to be enabled in the presets and links in the tree won't be copied into the image.

If you want to add additional packages to the image, you can define mkosi.presets/system/mkosi.conf.d/fedora-extra.conf:

[Match]
Distribution=fedora

[Content]
Packages=
    cowsay

Limitations

The following limitations apply to these images. Notice that the limitations are intentional to reduce complexity of configuration and CI and shall not be seen as open to-dos.

  • DISABLE_CLOUD_CONFIG=false is implied. The mkosi images are currently using cloud init/cloud config, and there is no possibility to disable it.