OS Deployment not working as expected

[ghost]

Expected Behaviour

I'm not sure if I'm putting this ticket in the right spot.

I am trying to test Tinkerbell to see if we might want to switch to it as a deployment method for our physical hosts. I am trying to deploy Debian as per your instructions here, specifically streaming the image to disk. I'm not sure I'm following them correctly and I just want to know if I'm on the right track. Any help would be very much appreciated.

I've also tried CentOS and Ubuntu with the same results

PREFACE -- The hello-world container deploys for me

I add the following hardware, template, and workflow. When the VM with the mac of 52:54:00:de:af:57 comes up it boots and alpine linux is running, debian is not installed and I see no errors in the logs and I have not caught any errors in the boot sequence either. I assume I am doing something pretty dumb, but I can't seem to figure it out.

cat > hardware-data.json <<EOF
{
  "id": "ce3e62ed-826f-4485-a39f-a82bb74338e2",
  "metadata": {
    "facility": {
      "facility_code": "onprem"
    },
    "instance": {},
    "state": ""
  },
  "network": {
    "interfaces": [
      {
        "dhcp": {
          "arch": "x86_64",
          "ip": {
            "address": "192.168.100.202",
            "gateway": "192.168.100.1",
            "netmask": "255.255.255.0"
          },
          "mac": "52:54:00:de:af:57",
          "uefi": false
        },
        "netboot": {
          "allow_pxe": true,
          "allow_workflow": true
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
EOF

docker exec -i deploy_tink-cli_1 tink hardware push < ./hardware-data.json


cat > debian.yml  <<EOF
version: "0.1"
name: debian_Focal
global_timeout: 1800
tasks:
  - name: "os-installation"
    worker: "{{.device_1}}"
    volumes:
      - /dev:/dev
      - /dev/console:/dev/console
      - /lib/firmware:/lib/firmware:ro
    actions:
      - name: "stream debian image"
        image: quay.io/tinkerbell-actions/image2disk:v1.0.0
        timeout: 90
        environment:
            IMG_URL: 192.168.100.201:8080/debian-10-openstack-amd64.raw
            DEST_DISK: /dev/sda
            COMPRESSED: false
      - name: "kexec debian"
        image: quay.io/tinkerbell-actions/kexec:v1.0.0
        timeout: 90
        pid: host
        environment:
            BLOCK_DEVICE: /dev/sda1
            FS_TYPE: ext4          
EOF

docker exec -i deploy_tink-cli_1 tink template create \
  < ./debian.yml


docker exec -i deploy_tink-cli_1 tink workflow create \
    -t 44e51a28-a6cc-11eb-b575-0242ac120005 \
    -r '{"device_1":"52:54:00:de:af:57"}'

Additionally, if I log into the alpine container and execute the following:

docker run -e DEST_DISK=/dev/sda -e IMG_URL=192.168.100.201:8080/debian-10-openstack-amd64.raw -e COMPRESSED=false quay.io/tinkerbell-actions/image2disk:v1.0.0

I get an error that says `msg="write /dev/sda: no space left on device"

Context

Your Environment

• Operating System and version (e.g. Linux, Windows, MacOS):

  • Fedora 33 with libvirt installed
    • Tinkerbell installed on Ubuntu 20.04 via bare metal docker install instructions
    • Worker is 32GB 2vCPU libvirt VM with ipxe

• How are you running Tinkerbell? Using Vagrant & VirtualBox, Vagrant & Libvirt, on Packet using Terraform, or give details:

  • Tinkerbell installed on Ubuntu 20.04 via bare metal docker install instructions

I assume I'm just doing something wrong

[jimmyat]

I had a similar issue here which turned out to be kexec not working properly: I'm getting function not implemented error. I'm not sure why this is just yet. The OS was actually deployed (and if I reboot i can get into the system just fine) but kexec didn't run.

If you SSH into the worker and check docker logs tink-worker what do you see? Do your actions succeed in the workflow log?

[tstromberg]

any thoughts, @mmlb or @jacobweinstock ?

[jacobweinstock]

Hey @jkl92, I know it's been a while here, but would you be able to post the output of fdisk -l on the worker?

[ghost]

Sorry, I got this working a while back, just had to learn a little about tinkerbell fist. thanks.