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  1. OpenShift Request For Enhancement
  2. RFE-3690

Create a Live disk artifact to support various cloud providers

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      Copied from MGMT-13725:

      To make the 'none' platform as easy as possible to install, we can make cloud providers use a generic, live disk (for
      most if not all of them use virtualization for instances) and leave users with only needing ton download the ignition from the target assisted cluster.


      Having a disk, and not a tailored ISO have nice advantages:
      1. it is not cluster specific - the disk is just a live RHCOS - could be
      distributed more easily, no need for per-provider image
      2.
      it is ready to use for virtualization - it's a qcow disk, easily imported and extended
      3. its writeable - the target instance needs just a single disk which will be overwritten by coreos-installer.
      4. It makes the number of actions for a user to be up and running smaller when installing more than 1 cluster -
      download the disk once, jump start every cluster with just the ignition from the infra-env

       

      To create a live qcow, I did the following:

      • downloaded the metal live iso of the version
      • convert to qcow using qemu-img
      • modified platform from metal to openstack
      • modified kernel args to load rootfs to memory
        • initrd to include /images/pxeboot/rootfs.img
        • remove coreos.liveiso=*

            rhn-support-mrussell Mark Russell
            rgolan1@redhat.com Roy Golan
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