1. Clouds, Live Images, Appliances
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Created by: Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Brazilian Fedora Ambassador
Bryan Kearney
NC State FOSS Fair

2. The Big Picture Appliance Appliance Distro Packages Tooling Appliance
Bare Metal
Live CD
Your
Packages
Kickstart
File
Live Media

3. Kickstart Pool ol

4. What does the LiveCD look like?
Snapshot
Ext3 FS
Squashfs
CD-ROM
(ISO9660)

5. Advantages of this architecture
Similarity to “normal” systems
Compression
SELinux
Installability

6. Making a Live CD
# livecd-creator –config=livecd-fedora- desktop.ks –fslabel=mylive
[.... wait a while ... ]
# ls -l mylive.iso
-rw-rw-rw- 2 katzj katzj :05 mylive.iso

7. Live USB
Snapshot
Ext3 FS
Squashfs
USB Key
(VFAT/ext3)
USB

8. Making a Live USB # ./livecd-iso-to-disk /path/to/iso /dev/sdc1
Available Options
Persistent Overlay Size (--overlay-size-mb)
Don't verify (--noverify)
Reset MBR (--reset-mbr)
Persistent Home Size (*NEW*) (--home-size-mb)
Encrypted!
Allows you to “upgrade” your stick

9. Live USB Creator

10. Appliance Creation Engine
Creator
Red Hat
Packages
ISV
Kickstart
File

11. Building an Appliance
appliance-creator config --vmem --vcpus --checksum --format

12. Now that we have an Appliance...
Go Cloud: ec2-convert
If you download the virt-installation tooling virt-convert image.xml -o vmx

13. Appliance Configuration Engine
Appliance Configuration Engine is a boot time tool
Leverages Augeas ( to access configuration files
Leverages Facter ( to access system information

14. R3MIX!

15. More Info Live CD Main LiveCD Wiki Page
GIT repository for livecd-creator
Fedora LiveCD Mailing List

16. More info on Thincrust

17. This Doc
Available at ncsu_foss_fair.odp ncsu_foss_fair.pdf