Ansible playbooks to build VyOS VM images.

You need a machine with at least 20 GB free space with Debian 10 (bare-metal, virtual, Docker container with --privileged flag). Also, you need to install ansible and python3 packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y ansible python3

If you want to build an OVA image, you also need ovftool from VMware. It should be downloaded from the VMware site. Also, you need a private key to sign an OVA file. It can be generated with the next command:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout myself.pem -out myself.pem

All other requirements will be installed by ansible-playbook.

You need to copy the ISO image with VyOS to /tmp/vyos.iso before running ansible-playbook. Resulting images also will be located inside /tmp/ directory.

The Dockerfile has all required dependencies.

1. Download the Dockerfile

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyos/vyos-vm-images/current/Dockerfile

2. Build local image with name vyos-vm-images (only if you do not have it)

docker build --tag vyos-vm-images:latest -f ./Dockerfile .

3. Start and connect to the container:

docker run --rm -it --privileged -v $(pwd):/vm-build -v $(pwd)/images:/images -w /vm-build vyos-vm-images:latest bash

4. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/vyos/vyos-vm-images.git && cd vyos-vm-images

• QEMU

  ansible-playbook qemu.yml
  

• VMware Cloud-init

  ansible-playbook vmware.yml -e vyos_vmware_private_key_path=path_to_private_key
  

• VMware simple ova

  ansible-playbook vmware.yml -e vyos_vmware_private_key_path=path_to_private_key -e cloud_init=false -e ovf_template=simple
  

• Microsoft Hyper-V

  ansible-playbook hyperv.yml
  

• Vagrant libvirt

  ansible-playbook vagrant-libvirt.yml
  

• Path to local ISO image (default: /tmp/vyos.iso):

  -e iso_local=path
  

  Example:

  -e iso_local=/tmp/vyos/custom_image.iso
  

• Disk size (default: 10GB):

  -e disk_size=size
  

  Example for 2 GB:

  -e disk_size=2
  

• Enable Cloud-init (default: according to platform):

  -e cloud_init=true
  

• Configure custom Cloud-init datasources (default: according to platform):

  -e cloud_init_ds=datasources
  

  Example:

  -e cloud_init_ds=NoCloud,ConfigDrive,None
  

• Install guest agent. It can be qemu, vmware (default: none):

  -e guest_agent=agent
  

  Example:

  -e guest_agent=qemu
  

• Disable configuration stage modules in Cloud-init. Mostly useful when you are building for non-cloud environments, where Cloud-init meta-data is not available (default: false):

  -e cloud_init_disable_config=true
  

• Create an archive with files required to PXE boot (default: false):

  -e pxe=true
  

• Keep default vyos user with password vyos in configuration when building an image with Cloud-init (default: false):

  -e keep_user=true
  

• Select a type of partition table for a disk image. Supported: mbr, gpt, hybrid (default: hybrid):

  -e parttable_type=hybrid
  

• Select default console for boot. Supported: kvm, serial (default: depending on platform):

  -e grub_console=serial
  

• Install custom packages. Can be a list in the files/custom_packages_list.txt file separated by spaces, or deb files inside the files/custom_debs/ directory:

  -e custom_packages=true
  

• Copy custom files. All files from inside the files/custom_files/ directory will be copied to the target filesystem recursively:

  -e custom_files=true
  

• Enable DHCP on eth0 (default: false):

  -e enable_dhcp=true
  

• Enable SSH (default: false):

  -e enable_ssh=true
  

• Remove login from configuration. Unlike keep_user, this option will completely remove system login from configuration.

  -e without_login=true