Alpine cloudinit image option

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Alpine cloudinit image option #900

Open elico opened 4 months ago

elico commented 4 months ago

Hey,

I have been using cloud images of alpine linux for quite a while now and was wondering if there would be a possibility to add one into the registry. The cloud images are public at: https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/

For now this is the relevant image: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.20/releases/cloud/generic_alpine-3.20.1-x86_64-bios-cloudinit-r0.qcow2

and we just need to create a cloud-init iso to create any image we would like. It can be frr or openvswitch or a web server or just plain alpine linux with user root and password alpine or what ever.

@grossmj What do you think?

grossmj commented 3 months ago

@elico yes that would be great. Just a plain Alpine Linux 👍

Thanks.

grossmj commented 3 months ago

@elico do you have any update on this or need some help?

elico commented 3 months ago

I have a working cloud init and it's a bit different then debian and redhat.

Thanks for checking out. I will try this evening to update with hope that i will not forget.

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elico commented 3 months ago

@grossmj I have published the user-data and meta-data templates at: https://git.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/disk-from-cloud-image/src/branch/master/gen-cloud-init

There is also a user-data-ovs which is using a github hosted script to generate an OVS appliance. It's very useful to use alpine based images in the registry and just for the example:

nginx
ovs
apache
iperf3
frr
etc...

Indeed there are benefits for Docker containers but these cannot complete many networking tasks which are for infrastructure so these VM templates will benefit GNS3 users a lot.

Thanks, Eliezer

let me know if you need something specific from me for the alpine related images.

grossmj commented 1 month ago

@elico

I have tried to create a Alpine cloud appliance in https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-registry/pull/917 however I am facing some issues.

The appliance is connect to a NAT cloud so it should have access to Internet.

First the appliance takes some time to boot because it is looking for something: the cloud's instance metadata service (IMDS).

Then even though it says the default username is "alpine" and I configured the password "alpine", I can't see to be able to login:

I haven't had time to investigate more. Maybe I just missed something obvious? I just don't want to spend to much time creating / maintaining appliances.