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29 Apr 2019 3:41am GMT

Disclaimer

I'm not responsible if you ruin your system, this guide functions as documentation for future me. Remember to back up your data.

Why this is useful / needed

It's useful to have a way of building a disk image for shipping, either for testing or production usage. The image output formats could be qcow2, raw or compressed tarball, it's up to you to make this what you want it to be.

Pre-work

Install diskimage-builder, for Gentoo you just have to 'emerge' the latest version. I personally keep one around in a virtual environment for testing (this allows me to build musl images as well easily).

The actual setup

What diskimage-builder actually does is take elements and run them. Each elements consists of a set of phases where the element takes actions. All you are really doing is defining the elements and they will insert themselves where needed. It also uses environment variables for tunables, or for other various small tweaks.

This is how I build the images at http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/amd64/openstack/

export GENTOO_PORTAGE_CLEANUP=True
export DIB_INSTALLTYPE_pip_and_virtualenv=package
export DIB_INSTALLTYPE_simple_init=repo
export GENTOO_PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6"
export GENTOO_PYTHON_ACTIVE_VERSION="python3.6"
export ELEMENTS="gentoo simple-init growroot vm openssh-server block-device-mbr"
export COMMAND="disk-image-create -a amd64 -t qcow2 --image-size 3"
export DATE="$(date -u +%Y%m%d)"

GENTOO_PROFILE=default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened ${COMMAND} -o "gentoo-openstack-amd64-hardened-nomultilib-${DATE}" ${ELEMENTS}
GENTOO_PROFILE=default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib ${COMMAND} -o "gentoo-openstack-amd64-default-nomultilib-${DATE}" ${ELEMENTS}
GENTOO_PROFILE=default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened ${COMMAND} -o "gentoo-openstack-amd64-hardened-${DATE}" ${ELEMENTS}
GENTOO_PROFILE=default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd ${COMMAND} -o "gentoo-openstack-amd64-systemd-${DATE}" ${ELEMENTS}
${COMMAND} -o "gentoo-openstack-amd64-default-${DATE}" ${ELEMENTS}

For musl I've had to do some custom work as I have to build the stage4s locally, but it's largely the same (with the additional need to define a musl overlay.

cd ~/diskimage-builder
cp ~/10-gentoo-image.musl diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image
pip install -U .
cd ~/

export GENTOO_PORTAGE_CLEANUP=False
export DIB_INSTALLTYPE_pip_and_virtualenv=package
export DIB_INSTALLTYPE_simple_init=repo
export GENTOO_PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6"
export GENTOO_PYTHON_ACTIVE_VERSION="python3.6"
DATE="$(date +%Y%m%d)"
export GENTOO_OVERLAYS="musl"
export GENTOO_PROFILE=default/linux/amd64/17.0/musl/hardened

disk-image-create -a amd64 -t qcow2 --image-size 3 -o gentoo-openstack-amd64-hardened-musl-"${DATE}" gentoo simple-init growroot vm

cd ~/diskimage-builder
git checkout diskimage_builder/elements/gentoo/root.d/10-gentoo-image
pip install -U .
cd ~/

Generic images

The elements I use are for an OpenStack image, meaning there is no default user/pass, those are set by cloud-init / glean. For a generic image you will want the following elements.

'gentoo growroot devuser vm'

The following environment variables are needed as well (changed to match your needs).

DIB_DEV_USER_PASSWORD=supersecrete DIB_DEV_USER_USERNAME=secrete DIB_DEV_USER_PWDLESS_SUDO=yes DIB_DEV_USER_AUTHORIZED_KEYS=/foo/bar/.ssh/authorized_keys

Fin

All this work was done upstream, if you have a question (or feature request) just ask. I'm on irc (Freenode) as prometheanfire or the same nick at gentoo.org for email.

24 Apr 2019 5:00am GMT

The Gentoo Foundation has partnered with Nitrokey to equip all Gentoo developers with free Nitrokey Pro 2 devices. Gentoo developers will use the Nitrokey devices to store cryptographic keys for signing of git commits and software packages, GnuPG keys, and SSH accounts.

Thanks to the Gentoo Foundation and Nitrokey's discount, each Gentoo developer is eligible to receive one free Nitrokey Pro 2. To receive their Nitrokey, developers will need to register with their @gentoo.org email address at the dedicated order form.

A Nitrokey Pro 2 Guide is available on the Gentoo Wiki with FAQ & instructions for integrating Nitrokeys into developer workflow.

ABOUT NITROKEY PRO 2

Nitrokey Pro 2 has strong reliable hardware encryption, thanks to open source. It can help you to: sign Git commits; encrypt emails and files; secure server access; and protect accounts against identity theft via two-factor authentication (one-time passwords).

ABOUT GENTOO

Gentoo Linux is a free, source-based, rolling release meta distribution that features a high degree of flexibility and high performance. It empowers you to make your computer work for you, and offers a variety of choices at all levels of system configuration.

As a community, Gentoo consists of approximately two hundred developers and over fifty thousand users globally.

The Gentoo Foundation supports the development of Gentoo, protects Gentoo's intellectual property, and oversees adherence to Gentoo's Social Contract.

ABOUT NITROKEY

Nitrokey is a German IT security startup committed to open source hardware and software. Nitrokey develops and produces USB keys for data encryption, email encryption (PGP/GPG, S/MIME), and secure account logins (SSH, two-factor authentication via OTP and FIDO).

Nitrokey is proud to support the Gentoo Foundation in further securing the Gentoo infrastructure and contributing to a secure open source Linux ecosystem.

16 Apr 2019 12:00am GMT