Chapter 22. Creating whole disk images The main overcloud image is a flat partition image that contains no partitioning information or bootloader. Director uses a separate kernel and ramdisk when it boots nodes and creates a basic partitioning layout when it writes the overcloud image to disk. However, you can create a whole disk image, which includes a partitioning layout, bootloader, and hardened security. Important The following process uses the director image building feature. Red Hat only supports images that use the guidelines contained in this section. Custom images built outside of these specifications are not supported. 22.1. Security hardening measures The whole disk image includes extra security hardening measures necessary for Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployments where security is an important feature. Security recommendations for image creation The /tmp directory is mounted on a separate volume or partition and has the rw , nosuid , nodev , noexec , and relatime flags. The /var , /var/log and the /var/log/audit directories are mounted on separate volumes or partitions, with the rw and relatime flags. The /home directory is mounted on a separate partition or volume and has the rw , nodev , and relatime flags. Include the following changes to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX setting: To enable auditing, add the audit=1 kernel boot flag. To disable the kernel support for USB using boot loader configuration, add nousb . To remove the insecure boot flags, set crashkernel=auto . Blacklist insecure modules ( usb-storage , cramfs , freevxfs , jffs2 , hfs , hfsplus , squashfs , udf , vfat ) and prevent these modules from loading. Remove any insecure packages ( kdump installed by kexec-tools and telnet ) from the image because they are installed by default. 22.2. Whole disk image workflow To build a whole disk image, complete the following workflow: Download a base Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 image. Set the environment variables specific to registration. Customize the image by modifying the partition schema and the size. Create the image. Upload the image to director. 22.3. Downloading the base cloud image Before you build a whole disk image, you must download an existing cloud image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to use as a basis. Procedure Navigate to the Red Hat Customer Portal: https://access.redhat.com/ Click DOWNLOADS on the top menu. Click Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 . Note Enter your customer Customer Portal login details if a prompt appears. Select the KVM Guest Image that you want to download. For example, the KVM Guest Image for the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux is available on the following page: "Installers and Images for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server" 22.4. Disk image environment variables As a part of the disk image building process, the director requires a base image and registration details to obtain packages for the new overcloud image. Define these attributes with the following Linux environment variables. Note The image building process temporarily registers the image with a Red Hat subscription and unregisters the system when the image building process completes. To build a disk image, set Linux environment variables that suit your environment and requirements: DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE Sets the local image that you want to use as the basis for your whole disk image. REG_ACTIVATION_KEY Use an activation key instead of login details as part of the registration process. REG_AUTO_ATTACH Defines whether to attach the most compatible subscription automatically. REG_BASE_URL The base URL of the content delivery server that contains packages for the image. The default Customer Portal Subscription Management process uses https://cdn.redhat.com . If you use a Red Hat Satellite 6 server, set this parameter to the base URL of your Satellite server. REG_ENVIRONMENT Registers to an environment within an organization. REG_METHOD Sets the method of registration. Use portal to register a system to the Red Hat Customer Portal. Use satellite to register a system with Red Hat Satellite 6. REG_ORG The organization where you want to register the images. REG_POOL_ID The pool ID of the product subscription information. REG_PASSWORD Sets the password for the user account that registers the image. REG_REPOS A comma-separated string of repository names. Each repository in this string is enabled through subscription-manager . Use the following repositories for a security hardened whole disk image: rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-eus-rpms rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms rhel-8-for-x86_64-highavailability-eus-rpms ansible-2.8-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms openstack-16-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms REG_SAT_URL The base URL of the Satellite server to register overcloud nodes. Use the Satellite HTTP URL and not the HTTPS URL for this parameter. For example, use http://satellite.example.com and not https://satellite.example.com . REG_SERVER_URL Sets the host name of the subscription service to use. The default host name is for the Red Hat Customer Portal at subscription.rhn.redhat.com . If you use a Red Hat Satellite 6 server, set this parameter to the host name of your Satellite server. REG_USER Sets the user name for the account that registers the image. Use the following set of example commands to export a set of environment variables and temporarily register a local QCOW2 image to the Red Hat Customer Portal: 22.5. Customizing the disk layout The default security hardened image size is 20G and uses predefined partitioning sizes. However, you must modify the partitioning layout to accommodate overcloud container images. Complete the steps in the following sections to increase the image size to 40G. You can modify the partitioning layout and disk size to further suit your needs. To modify the partitioning layout and disk size, perform the following steps: Modify the partitioning schema using the DIB_BLOCK_DEVICE_CONFIG environment variable. Modify the global size of the image by updating the DIB_IMAGE_SIZE environment variable. 22.6. Modifying the partitioning schema You can modify the partitioning schema to alter the partitioning size, create new partitions, or remove existing partitions. Use the following environment variable to define a new partitioning schema: The following YAML structure represents the modified logical volume partitioning layout to accommodate enough space to pull overcloud container images: Use this sample YAML content as a basis for the partition schema of your image. Modify the partition sizes and layout to suit your needs. Note You must define the correct partition sizes for the image because you cannot resize them after the deployment. 22.7. Modifying the image size The global sum of the modified partitioning schema might exceed the default disk size (20G). In this situation, you might need to modify the image size. To modify the image size, edit the configuration files that create the image. Procedure Create a copy of the /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/image-yaml/overcloud-hardened-images-python3.yaml : Note For UEFI whole disk images, use /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/image-yaml/overcloud-hardened-images-uefi-python3.yaml . Edit the DIB_IMAGE_SIZE in the configuration file and adjust the values as necessary: 1 Adjust this value to the new total disk size. Save the file. Important When you deploy the overcloud, the director creates a RAW version of the overcloud image. This means your undercloud must have enough free space to accommodate the RAW image. For example, if you set the security hardened image size to 40G, you must have 40G of space available on the undercloud hard disk. Important When director writes the image to the physical disk, it creates a 64MB configuration drive primary partition at the end of the disk. When you create your whole disk image, ensure that the size of the physical disk accommodates this extra partition. 22.8. Building the whole disk image After you set the environment variables and customize the image, create the image using the openstack overcloud image build command. Procedure Run the openstack overcloud image build command with all necessary configuration files. 1 This is the custom configuration file that contains the new disk size. If you are not using a different custom disk size, use the original /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/image-yaml/overcloud-hardened-images-python3.yaml file instead. For standard UEFI whole disk images, use overcloud-hardened-images-uefi-python3.yaml . 2 For UEFI whole disk images, use overcloud-hardened-images-uefi-rhel8.yaml . This command creates an image called overcloud-hardened-full.qcow2 , which contains all the necessary security features. 22.9. Uploading the whole disk image Upload the image to the OpenStack Image (glance) service and start using it from the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director. To upload a security hardened image, complete the following steps: Rename the newly generated image and move the image to your images directory: Remove all the old overcloud images: Upload the new overcloud image: If you want to replace an existing image with the security hardened image, use the --update-existing flag. This flag overwrites the original overcloud-full image with a new security hardened image.

Commands:
export DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=./rhel-8.0-x86_64-kvm.qcow2 export REG_METHOD=portal export REG_USER="[your username]" export REG_PASSWORD="[your password]" export REG_REPOS="rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-eus-rpms rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rpms rhel-8-for-x86_64-highavailability-eus-rpms ansible-2.8-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms openstack-16-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms"
export DIB_BLOCK_DEVICE_CONFIG='<yaml_schema_with_partitions>'
export DIB_BLOCK_DEVICE_CONFIG=''' - local_loop: name: image0 - partitioning: base: image0 label: mbr partitions: - name: root flags: [ boot,primary ] size: 40G - lvm: name: lvm base: [ root ] pvs: - name: pv base: root options: [ "--force" ] vgs: - name: vg base: [ "pv" ] options: [ "--force" ] lvs: - name: lv_root base: vg extents: 23%VG - name: lv_tmp base: vg extents: 4%VG - name: lv_var base: vg extents: 45%VG - name: lv_log base: vg extents: 23%VG - name: lv_audit base: vg extents: 4%VG - name: lv_home base: vg extents: 1%VG - mkfs: name: fs_root base: lv_root type: xfs label: "img-rootfs" mount: mount_point: / fstab: options: "rw,relatime" fsck-passno: 1 - mkfs: name: fs_tmp base: lv_tmp type: xfs mount: mount_point: /tmp fstab: options: "rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime" fsck-passno: 2 - mkfs: name: fs_var base: lv_var type: xfs mount: mount_point: /var fstab: options: "rw,relatime" fsck-passno: 2 - mkfs: name: fs_log base: lv_log type: xfs mount: mount_point: /var/log fstab: options: "rw,relatime" fsck-passno: 3 - mkfs: name: fs_audit base: lv_audit type: xfs mount: mount_point: /var/log/audit fstab: options: "rw,relatime" fsck-passno: 4 - mkfs: name: fs_home base: lv_home type: xfs mount: mount_point: /home fstab: options: "rw,nodev,relatime" fsck-passno: 2 '''
cp /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/image-yaml/overcloud-hardened-images-python3.yaml /home/stack/overcloud-hardened-images-python3-custom.yaml
environment: DIB_PYTHON_VERSION: '3' DIB_MODPROBE_BLACKLIST: 'usb-storage cramfs freevxfs jffs2 hfs hfsplus squashfs udf vfat bluetooth' DIB_BOOTLOADER_DEFAULT_CMDLINE: 'nofb nomodeset vga=normal console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 audit=1 nousb' DIB_IMAGE_SIZE: '40' 1 COMPRESS_IMAGE: '1'
openstack overcloud image build --image-name overcloud-hardened-full --config-file /home/stack/overcloud-hardened-images-python3-custom.yaml \ 1 --config-file /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-common/image-yaml/overcloud-hardened-images-rhel8.yaml 2
mv overcloud-hardened-full.qcow2 ~/images/overcloud-full.qcow2
openstack image delete overcloud-full openstack image delete overcloud-full-initrd openstack image delete overcloud-full-vmlinuz
openstack overcloud image upload --image-path /home/stack/images --whole-disk