bluejumper / build-onie

A Dockerfile that creates a build environment for ONIE.

build-onie

This Dockerfile creates a Debian build environment for ONIE. It also clarifies how Docker could be used in a build workflow.

• It has not been tested yet. I will revisit this image upon a return to the ONIE build process.

Docker allows you to package an entire Linux environment into units called containers. Containers utilise control groups, a resource isolation & management feature of the Linux kernel, to execute their processes with allowances specific to their control group.

Steps (Container preparation)

The goal is to access a shell session as the 'build' user within the container environment.

Clone this repository. Then navigate into the directory.

• git clone https://github.com/bluejumper/build-onie && cd build-onie

Build the image using Docker.

• docker build -t debian:build-onie .

Create a container from this image, and attach your terminal onto it. You can define any mount options using the alternative command.

• docker run -it --name debian debian:build-onie
• docker run -it -v [a_host_directory]:/mnt/build --name debian debian:build-onie to specify a mount

Should you find yourself detached from your container instance, you can use docker attach [name] to re-attach onto a running container.

Steps (Build preparation)

As the build user, navigate to the build directory.

• cd /mnt/build

Use Git to clone the ONIE repository.

• git clone https://github.com/opencomputeproject/onie

Navigate through the repository to 'build-config'.

• cd ./onie/build-config

Steps (To build)

You can now follow a target's build steps from the ONIE repository. Please review the 'INSTALL' file within a directory you'll find here.

• For a KVM build: make -j2 MACHINE=kvm_x86_64 all recovery-iso
• For an Accton platform: make -j4 MACHINEROOT=../machine/accton MACHINE=accton_as7816_64x all