Lago build

Lago allows to build / configure VM disks during init stage. In the init file, the key build should be added to each disk that needs to be configured.

build should map to a list of Builders, where each builder in the list is a one entry dictionary that maps to a dictionary that holds the options for that builder.

Options are key-value pairs, where the key is the name of the option (without leading dashes), and the value is the argument for that option. If the option takes no arguments, the empty string should be set as the value. If the builder allows specifying an options multiple times, the value should be a list of arguments.

Note: The build process runs “behind-the-back” of the OS (Before the VM starts), thus should be used with care.

Builders

Builders are commands that can be used to build/configure VMs. Builders are called by the order they appear in the init file.

virt-customize

A tool for customizing a virtual machine (install packages, copying files, etc...). virt-customize is part of the libguestfs tool set which is part of Lago’s dependencies.

virt-customize can be called only on disks which contains an OS.

Depends on the version of virt-customize installed on your system (it can vary between different OS), all the valid options for virt-customize can be specified in the init file. For the full list of options please refer to virt-customize documentation.

There is a special case when using virt-customize to inject ssh keys. If the empty string is provided to ssh-inject option, Lago will replace it with the path to lago’s self generated ssh keys.

Note: If SELinux is enabled in a VM, it’s possible that selinux-relabel will be required after adding / modifiyng its files.

Relation to bootstrap

Configuration is taking place after Lago runs bootstrap. You can disable bootstrap to all VMs by passing --skip-bootstrap to lago init, or by adding bootstrap: false to the VM definition in the init file (the second allows to control bootstrap per VM).

Since bootstrap is injecting ssh keys to the VMs, If skipping it, it’s recommended to inject the ssh keys using virt-customize builder otherwise, shell access to the VM will use password authentication (more details can be found in the Builders sections in this documents).

Example

In the following example, virt-customize builder will be called on the disk of vm01.

The changes will be:

  • Injecting lago’s self generated ssh keys.
  • Copy dummy_file from the host to /root in vm01
  • Create files /root/file1 and /root/file2 in vm01
  • Finish with SELinux relabel of vm01.
domains:
  vm01:
    artifacts: [/var/log]
    bootstrap: false
    disks:
    - build:
      - virt-customize:
          ssh-inject: ''
          copy: dummy_file:/root
          touch: [/root/file1, /root/file2]
          selinux-relabel: ''
      dev: vda
      format: qcow2
      name: root
      path: $LAGO_INITFILE_PATH/lago-basic-suite-4-1-engine_root.qcow2
      template_name: el7.3-base
      template_type: qcow2
      type: template