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| <h1>lorax-composer<a class="headerlink" href="#lorax-composer" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Authors:</th><td class="field-body">Brian C. Lane <<a class="reference external" href="mailto:bcl%40redhat.com">bcl<span>@</span>redhat<span>.</span>com</a>></td>
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| <p>lorax-composer is an API server that is compatible with the Weldr project’s
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| bdcs-api REST protocol. More information on Weldr can be found <a class="reference external" href="http://www.weldr.io">on the Weldr
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| blog</a>.</p>
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| <p>The server runs as root, and communication with it is via a unix domain socket
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| (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/run/weldr/api.socket</span></tt> by default). The directory and socket are owned by
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| root:weldr so that any user in the weldr group can use the API to control
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| lorax-composer.</p>
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| <p>When starting the server it will check for the correct permissions and
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| ownership of a pre-existing directory, or it will create a new one if it
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| doesn’t exist.  The socket path and group owner’s name can be changed from the
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| cmdline by passing it the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--socket</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--group</span></tt> arguments.</p>
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| <p>As of version 19.7.7 it will drop root privileges for the API thread. The queue
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| and compose thread still runs as root because it needs to be able to
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| mount/umount files and run Anaconda.</p>
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| <div class="section" id="logs">
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| <h2>Logs<a class="headerlink" href="#logs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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| <p>Logs are stored under <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/var/log/lorax-composer/</span></tt> and include all console
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| messages as well as extra debugging info and API requests.</p>
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| <div class="section" id="quickstart">
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| <h2>Quickstart<a class="headerlink" href="#quickstart" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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| <ol class="arabic simple">
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| <li>Create a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">weldr</span></tt> user and group by running <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">useradd</span> <span class="pre">weldr</span></tt></li>
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| <li>Remove any pre-existing socket directory with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">rm</span> <span class="pre">-rf</span> <span class="pre">/run/weldr/</span></tt>
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| A new directory with correct permissions will be created the first time the server runs.</li>
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| <li>Either start it via systemd with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">systemctl</span> <span class="pre">start</span> <span class="pre">lorax-composer</span></tt> or
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| run it directly with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lorax-composer</span> <span class="pre">/path/to/recipes/</span></tt></li>
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| </ol>
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| <p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/path/to/recipes/</span></tt> is where the recipe’s git repo will be created, and
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| all the recipes created with the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/api/v0/recipes/new</span></tt> route will be stored.
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| If there are recipe <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.toml</span></tt> files in the top level of the directory they will
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| be imported into the recipe git storage.</p>
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| <div class="section" id="composing-images">
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| <h2>Composing Images<a class="headerlink" href="#composing-images" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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| <p>As of version 19.7.7 lorax-composer can create <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tar</span></tt> output images. You can use curl to start
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| a compose like this:</p>
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| <div class="highlight-python"><pre>curl --unix-socket /run/weldr/api.socket -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"recipe_name": "http-server", "compose_type": "tar", "branch": "master"}' http:///api/v0/compose</pre>
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| <p>And then monitor it by passing the returned build UUID to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/compose/status/<uuid></span></tt>.</p>
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| <p>Version 19.7.10 adds support for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">live-iso</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">partitioned-disk</span></tt></p>
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| <h2>Adding Output Types<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-output-types" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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| <p>livemedia-creator supports a large number of output types, and only some of
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| these are currently available via lorax-composer. To add a new output type to
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| lorax-composer a kickstart file needs to be added to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./share/composer/</span></tt>. The
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| name of the kickstart is what will be used by the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/compose/types</span></tt> route, and the
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| <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">compose_type</span></tt> field of the POST to start a compose. It also needs to have
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| code added to the <a class="reference internal" href="pylorax.api.html#pylorax.api.compose.compose_args" title="pylorax.api.compose.compose_args"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">pylorax.api.compose.compose_args()</span></tt></a> function. The
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| <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_MAP</span></tt> entry in this function defines what lorax-composer will pass to
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| <a class="reference internal" href="pylorax.html#pylorax.installer.novirt_install" title="pylorax.installer.novirt_install"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">pylorax.installer.novirt_install()</span></tt></a> when it runs the compose.  When the
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| compose is finished the output files need to be copied out of the build
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| directory (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/var/lib/lorax/composer/results/<UUID>/compose/</span></tt>),
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| <a class="reference internal" href="pylorax.api.html#pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results" title="pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results()</span></tt></a> handles this for each type.
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| You should move them instead of copying to save space.</p>
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| <p>If the new output type does not have support in livemedia-creator it should be
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| added there first. This will make the output available to the widest number of
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| users.</p>
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| <div class="section" id="example-add-partitioned-disk-support">
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| <h3>Example: Add partitioned disk support<a class="headerlink" href="#example-add-partitioned-disk-support" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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| <p>Partitioned disk support is something that livemedia-creator already supports
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| via the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--make-disk</span></tt> cmdline argument. To add this to lorax-composer it
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| needs 3 things:</p>
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| <li>A <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">partitioned-disk.ks</span></tt> file in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./share/composer/</span></tt></li>
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| <li>A new entry in the _MAP in <a class="reference internal" href="pylorax.api.html#pylorax.api.compose.compose_args" title="pylorax.api.compose.compose_args"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">pylorax.api.compose.compose_args()</span></tt></a></li>
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| <li>Add a bit of code to <a class="reference internal" href="pylorax.api.html#pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results" title="pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results"><tt class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">pylorax.api.compose.move_compose_results()</span></tt></a> to move the disk image from
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| the compose directory to the results directory.</li>
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| </ul>
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| <p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">partitioned-disk.ks</span></tt> is pretty similar to the example minimal kickstart
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| in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./docs/rhel7-minimal.ks</span></tt>. You should remove the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">url</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">repo</span></tt>
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| commands, they will be added by the compose process. Make sure the bootloader
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| packages are included in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%packages</span></tt> section at the end of the kickstart,
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| and you will want to leave off the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%end</span></tt> so that the compose can append the
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| list of packages from the recipe.</p>
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| <p>The new <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_MAP</span></tt> entry should be a copy of one of the existing entries, but with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make_disk</span></tt> set
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| to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt>. Make sure that none of the other <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make_*</span></tt> options are <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt>. The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">image_name</span></tt> is
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| what the name of the final image will be.</p>
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| <p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">move_compose_results()</span></tt> can be as simple as moving the output file into
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| the results directory, or it could do some post-processing on it. The end of
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| the function should always clean up the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./compose/</span></tt> directory, removing any
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| unneeded extra files. This is especially true for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">live-iso</span></tt> since it produces
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| the contents of the iso as well as the boot.iso itself.</p>
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