mksio role

Role is designed to add preseed options to ISO images. These options are based on ansible inventory groups and variables. Set mkiso_group variable to the name of the target group. Ensure to set host_presets variable, use vagrant/host_vars/vm1.vagrant.yml as an example.

Warning!

Role is currently in depelopment. Some major settings (like disk setup) are still hardcoded in the templates. It is tuned to set up raid 10 and lvm on 5 disks. Feel free to make pull requests with parametrized disk setup.

Variables

When gpt is used (host_presets.disks.gpt), partisions should start from 2. Only primary partitions are currentrly supported.

You only have to specify partitions for raid, like this:

host_presets:
  disks:
      gpt: no
      raid:
          - { type: 1,  spares: 0, fs: 'ext4', mount: '/boot', devices: ['sdb1', 'sdc1', 'sdd1', 'sde1', 'sdf1'] }
          - { type: 10, spares: 0, fs: 'lvm',  mount: '-',     devices: ['sdb2', 'sdc2', 'sdd2', 'sde2', 'sdf2'] }
# or
  disks:
    gpt: yes
    raid:
        - { type: 1, spares: 0, fs: 'ext4', mount: '/boot', devices: ['sda2', 'sdb2', 'sdc2'] }
        - { type: 1, spares: 0, fs: 'lvm',  mount: '-',     devices: ['sdb3', 'sdc3'] }

Preseed file also requires a list of drives. It is generated automatically from the list of partitions by removing the tailing number with the help of the following regexp: regex_replace('\d+$','').

Known issues confirmed on ubuntu 14.04.3 server iso

Initial user setup doesn't work for some reason. We are fine due to valid ssh access and no-passwords user. Not sure if it's a configuration or installer issue.
Hotspare raid parameter is ignored by the installer.
Multiple LVMs require propper naming. Post installation renaming has to be implemented in this role. See example.preseed for some details.
combine filter is avaliable starting from ansible 2.0 so host_presets has to be fully declared on host or group basis. Merging is going to be implemented after ansible 2.0 release. In fact I'm going to declare 4 dictionaries: host_presets, host_presets_encrypted, group_presets, group_presets_encrypted.
On some systems sda disk is not avaliable during installation. That is caused by late driver loading and sdb has to be used as a first drive. ls still shows /dev/sda but cat and dd commands fail to operate with it and installation fails with sda errors.

Template debugging

Run role with debug tag and varialbe:

ansible-playbook mkiso.yml -t debug -e debug=yes

And find you preseed files locally in /ymp/mkiso directory.

ISO testing

See scripts for some virtual box automation scripts.

Reference

Ubuntu preseed

http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/feature/Performing-an-automated-Ubuntu-install-using-preseeding https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/installation-guide/example-preseed.txt https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PartMan https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise/WorkstationAutoinstallPreseed

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1504045 http://askubuntu.com/questions/573108/how-to-configure-raid-2-lvm-volumes-via-preseed https://github.com/ahamilton55/Blog-Scripts/blob/master/debian_ubuntu_preseeds/ubuntu-raid1-lvm.preseed http://serverfault.com/questions/541117/12-04-preseeded-install-with-raid-and-lvm http://bryars.eu/2011/08/automating-debian-preseed-installs-with-raid-and-lvm/

virtual box

http://www.howopensource.com/2011/06/how-to-use-virtualbox-in-terminal-commandline/ http://nakkaya.com/2012/08/30/create-manage-virtualBox-vms-from-the-command-line/

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