This project helps creating an Alpine based Openstack image. It uses The alpine-make-vm-image script to build a disk image in QCOW2 format.
This image can then be uploaded to an openstack project with the following command:
> openstack --os-cloud mycloud image create --disk-format qcow2 --file alpine-openstack.qcow2 alpine-openstackAnd a corresponding server can be created with:
openstack --os-cloud mycloud server create --key-name mykey --image alpine-openstack --flavor myflavor alpineThe terraform directory contains a sample terraform module using the image to spawn a VM and create a DNS entry for it. It targets the french Openstack cloud provider OVHcloud.
Along with each qcow2 image in each release there is also a vhdx version of the
image that can be started with Hyper-V on Windows. Its name is
alpine-openstack.vhdx.
To be able to run it on Windows without a metadata service, a small
NoCloud ISO
image seed.iso is provided. It allows connecting to the VM through SSH with
the password passw0rd (username alpine).
You can create the VM with:
PS> New-VM -Name debug -MemoryStartupBytes 2GB -Path . -BootDevice VHD -VHDPath .\alpine-openstack.vhdx -SwitchName "Default Switch" -Generation 1
PS> Set-VMDvdDrive -VMName debug -Path .\seed.iso
PS> Start-VM debug
PS> Get-NetNeighbor -LinkLayerAddress 00-15-5d-*
ifIndex IPAddress LinkLayerAddress State PolicyStore
------- --------- ---------------- ----- -----------
60 172.26.131.90 00-15-5D-25-01-8D Reachable ActiveStore
29 172.20.64.204 00-15-5D-00-3F-28 Permanent ActiveStore
PS> ssh alpine@172.20.64.204
alpine@172.20.64.204 password:
Welcome to Alpine!
The Alpine Wiki contains a large amount of how-to guides and general
information about administrating Alpine systems.
See <https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/>.
You can setup the system with the command: setup-alpine
You may change this message by editing /etc/motd.
➜ ~ exit
PS>More information on this blog post.