Building Images for Oxide

Prerequisites for Oxide

• Credentials for an Oxide rack, configured via either OXIDE_PROFILE or OXIDE_HOST/OXIDE_TOKEN in the environment.

• The following environment variables set:

  Variable	Description
  OXIDE_PROJECT	Name or ID of the Oxide project to build the image in.
  OXIDE_BOOT_DISK_IMAGE_ID	UUID of the image to use as the build source.

Building Images

The build prerequisites for using image-builder for building Oxide images are managed by running:

make deps-oxide

From the images/capi directory, run make build-oxide-<OS> where <OS> is the desired operating system. The available choices are listed via make help.

Configuration

In addition to the configuration found in images/capi/packer/config, the oxide directory includes per-OS JSON files that define defaults for each supported image: