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This is similar to the AMI type, but also adds open-vm-tools and does not do anything special to the partitioning
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composer
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:Authors:
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Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com>
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``composer`` is used to interact with the ``lorax-composer`` API server, managing blueprints, exploring available packages, and building new images.
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It requires `lorax-composer <lorax-composer.html>`_ to be installed on the
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local system, and the user running it needs to be a member of the ``weldr``
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group. They do not need to be root, but all of the `security precautions
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<lorax-composer.html#security>`_ apply.
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composer cmdline arguments
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--------------------------
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.. argparse::
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:ref: composer.cli.cmdline.composer_cli_parser
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:prog: composer
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Edit a Blueprint
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----------------
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Start out by listing the available blueprints using ``composer blueprints
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list``, pick one and save it to the local directory by running ``composer
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blueprints save http-server``. If there are no blueprints available you can
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copy one of the examples `from the test suite
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<https://github.com/weldr/lorax/tree/master/tests/pylorax/blueprints/>`_.
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Edit the file (it will be saved with a .toml extension) and change the
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description, add a package or module to it. Send it back to the server by
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running ``composer blueprints push http-server.toml``. You can verify that it was
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saved by viewing the changelog - ``composer blueprints changes http-server``.
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Build an image
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----------------
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Build a ``qcow2`` disk image from this blueprint by running ``composer
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compose start http-server qcow2``. It will print a UUID that you can use to
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keep track of the build. You can also cancel the build if needed.
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The available types of images is displayed by ``composer compose types``.
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Currently this consists of: ami, ext4-filesystem, live-iso, partitioned-disk,
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qcow2, tar, vhd, vmdk
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Monitor the build status
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------------------------
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Monitor it using ``composer compose status``, which will show the status of
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all the builds on the system. You can view the end of the anaconda build logs
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once it is in the ``RUNNING`` state using ``composer compose log UUID``
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where UUID is the UUID returned by the start command.
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Once the build is in the ``FINISHED`` state you can download the image.
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Download the image
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------------------
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Downloading the final image is done with ``composer compose image UUID`` and it will
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save the qcow2 image as ``UUID-disk.qcow2`` which you can then use to boot a VM like this::
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qemu-kvm --name test-image -m 1024 -hda ./UUID-disk.qcow2
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