Images

An image is what is used by the Docker and QEMU drivers to setup the build environment for build execution. A user can upload custom images to use for their builds. Right now Djinn CI only supports the uploading of QEMU driver images.

Note: Since the Docker driver uses Docker Hub to download images, you can specify any image for this driver to use, and as long as the Djinn Server can talk to the Docker Hub, that image will be downloaded and used.

Default images

Djinn CI comes with a set of default images for the QEMU driver that can be used. The full list of these images can be found on the Djinn CI image server.

Creating an image

Images are created from the Images link the dashboard's sidebar, and by clicking the Create button in the top right hand corner.

Images for the QEMU driver are expected to be QCOW2 (v3) image file. It is expected for the root user to have no password and for SSH access to be configured for the root user.

Images can be grouped in a namespace for use by other users who have access to that same namespace. If the namespace being specified does not exist during image creation then it will be created on the fly.

Preparing a QEMU image

First create create a new image file using the qemu-img command with the format of qcow2. We recommend keeping the size of this image smaller than 20GB.

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 my-image.qcow2 10G

With this image created you can now install an operating system of your choice, and prepare it for use in Djinn CI as a custom image.

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096 \
    -cdrom ubuntu.iso \
    -net nic,model=virtio \
    -net user \
    -drive file=my-image.qcow2,media=disk,if=virtio

Once the operating has been installed we can go about configuring the image for use. The QEMU driver in Djinn CI uses a passwordless root user to connect to the machine to perform jobs, so we need to ensure that the root user has no password.

$ passwd -d root

Next, we need to configure the SSH server to allow for a root login, and to allow password authentication. Below is the typical SSH configuration used by the base images provided by Djinn CI.

PermitRootLogin yes

PasswordAuthentication yes
PermitEmptyPasswords yes
PubkeyAuthentication no

ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
GSSAPIAuthentication no

UsePAM no
UseDNS no

AcceptEnv *

PermitUserEnvironment yes

Subsystem sftp internal-sftp

Using a custom image

Once an image has been uploaded you can use it by simply specifying its name in the build manifest,

driver:
    type: qemu
    image: my-image

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