Provisioning a VM on KVM via Kickstart using virt-install
virt-install is a command line tool for creating new KVM , Xen, or Linux container guests using the “libvirt” hypervisor management library. It is one of the quickest way to deploy a vm from the command line. In this post I will also show you to install CentOS on KVM via kickstart. In this installation instead of choosing native GNU/Linux bridge we are using Open Vswitch.
For your environment, I am assuming that you already configured your dhcp, dns and http server environment for the pxeboot. I am using cobbler for dhcp server management. I am provisioning CentOS machines for installation of Kubernetes Cluster nodes. As I use remote KVM host, user tesla has to able to connect with SSH key authentication and the user tesla has to be in the group libvirt.
Provisioning script.
virt-install \
--connect qemu+ssh://[email protected]/system \
--name k8s-master \
--ram 2048 \
--disk bus=virtio,pool=KVMGuests,size=15,format=qcow2 \
--network network=OVS0,model=virtio,virtualport_type=openvswitch,portgroup=VLAN100 \
--vcpus 2 \
--os-type linux \
--location http://cobbler.manintheit.org/cblr/links/CentOS7-x86_64 \
--os-variant rhel7 \
--extra-args="ks=http://10.5.100.253/k8s/k8s-master-centos7.ks ksdevice=eth0 ip=10.5.100.15 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=10.5.100.253 gateway=10.5.100.254"
--location Distribution tree installation source. virt-install can recognize certain distribution trees and fetches a bootable kernel/initrd pair to launch the install.
k8s-master-centos7.ks
install
text
eula --agreed
url --url=http://10.5.100.253/cblr/links/CentOS7-x86_64/
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot=on --bootproto=static --ip 10.5.100.15 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 10.5.100.254 --nameserver 10.5.100.253 --device=eth0 --hostname k8s-master.manintheit.org
rootpw root
firewall --disabled
selinux --permissive
timezone Europe/Berlin
skipx
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext4 --size=512
part / --fstype ext4 --size=1 --grow
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
services --enabled=NetworkManager,sshd
reboot
user --name=tesla --plaintext --password tesla --groups=tesla,wheel
#repo --name=base --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/
#repo --name=epel-release --baseurl=http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/epel/7/x86_64/
#repo --name=elrepo-kernel --baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/kernel/el7/x86_64/
#repo --name=elrepo-release --baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el7/x86_64/
#repo --name=elrepo-extras --baseurl=http://elrepo.org/linux/extras/el7/x86_64/
%packages --ignoremissing --excludedocs
@Base
%end
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yum update -y
yum install -y sudo
echo "tesla ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers.d/tesla
sed -i "s/^.*requiretty/#Defaults requiretty/" /etc/sudoers
/bin/echo 'UseDNS no' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
yum clean all
/bin/sh -c 'echo "br_netfilter" > /etc/modules-load.d/br_netfilter.conf'
modprobe br_netfilter
cat <<EOF > /etc/sysctl.d/k8s.conf
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 1
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 1
EOF
sysctl --system
#Enable kubernetes repo
cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF
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