Cloud Images

Pulling cloud images into OpenStack using Image Shepherd.

This repository runs regularly scheduled Image Shepherd jobs via GitLab CI. These scheduled jobs are executed on a private GitLab runner on OpenStack.

The instance is named cloud-images-runner and is running in the snewman project at the time this README was written. This was because I was unable to allocate any more floating IPs, and there was no other project that I would be able to access a new VM on.

I ran the following commands to get the private runner up and running:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
curl -fsSL get.docker.com | sh
sudo shutdown -r 0

# After reboot
mkdir config
sudo docker run -d --name gitlab-runner --restart always \
  -v /home/ubuntu/config:/etc/gitlab-runner \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest
sudo docker run --rm -it -v /home/ubuntu/config:/etc/gitlab-runner gitlab/gitlab-runner register
sudo docker restart gitlab-runner

Additionally, I created the clouds.yaml file by creating a new Application Credential in the ops project named image-shepherd with the _member_ and admin roles. The application credential ID and application credential secret were removed from the file and added to the repository as secrets.