Diskimage-builder: deep dive into a 'machine compiler'
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2014 -- Perth, Australia
Date: 2014-01-17

Presenter(s): Robert Collins
URL: https://lca2014.linux.org.au/schedule/30219/view_talk

Take a deep dive tour through the plumbing inside 'diskimage-builder', the OpenStack golden image builder. If you deploy applications in a cloud - whether a bare metal cloud, a private virtual cloud or a public cloud, you will find diskimage-builder a useful tool for delivering them quickly and reliably.

Golden images are a common tool in deploying cloud applications: they prevent duplication of work bringing up virtual machines that have the same role, and thus save money and time.

There are already a number of ways to build golden images: Oz, Kiwi, snapshots, live-build, etc. We think diskimage-builder is at a sweet spot between complexity and feature-set and performance. This tool is used in the OpenStack Deployment project, in OpenStack Trove (database as-a-service), Savanna (hadoop as-a-service), and in the test pipeline for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat).


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