Reduce the size of the ironic-agent ramdisk

This patch is reducing the size of the ramdisk image generated by the
ironic-agent element. It does remove extra packages (graphical stuff,
dev stuff, miscs, docs, etc...) and purges directories that are not
needed for a ramdisk (like /boot since it boots using an external
kernel)

Currently it was tested generating a Fedora 22 image and reduced the
size of the final image from 464 MB to 211MB compacted (54% decrease).

I was able to boot a VM with 1.3 GiB of ram instead of the previous 3 GiB
needed.

Change-Id: Id6333ca5d99716ccad75ea1964896acf371fa72a
This commit is contained in:
Lucas Alvares Gomes 2015-08-06 12:43:10 +01:00
parent c2b96259a4
commit 1181fb8543
3 changed files with 32 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ Beyond installing the ironic-python-agent, this element does the following:
* When installing from source, ``python-dev`` and ``gcc`` are also installed
in order to support source based installation of ironic-python-agent and its
dependencies.
.. note::
Using the ramdisk will require at least 1.5GB of ram

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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ echo "#disabled" > ./tmp/fstab.new
sudo mv ./tmp/fstab.new ./etc/fstab
sudo ln -s ./sbin/init ./
sudo find . -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -path './tmp/*' -prune -o -print | sudo cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ${IMAGE_PATH}.initramfs
sudo find . -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -path './tmp/*' -prune -o -path './boot/*' -prune -o -path './root/*' -prune -o -path './usr/lib/locale/*' -prune -o -path './usr/share/doc/*' -prune -o -path './usr/share/man/*' -prune -o -path './usr/share/info/*' -prune -o -path './usr/share/licenses/*' -prune -o -path './usr/share/misc/*' -prune -o -print | sudo cpio -o -H newc | gzip > ${IMAGE_PATH}.initramfs
select_boot_kernel_initrd $TARGET_ROOT
sudo cp $BOOTDIR/$KERNEL ${IMAGE_PATH}.vmlinuz

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@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
#!/bin/bash
if [ "${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then
set -x
fi
set -eu
set -o pipefail
# TODO(lucasagomes): optimize the ramdisk for other OSs
if [ $DISTRO_NAME = 'fedora' ] ; then
install-packages -e kernel-debug-devel gcc fedora-logos python3 rsync sudo pykickstart grubby make genisoimage tcpdump man-db policycoreutils kbd-misc plymouth cronie
if [ $DIB_RELEASE -ge 22 ]; then
# Remove yum, >= F22 defaults to dnf
dnf remove yum -y
# Remove package manager cache
dnf clean all
else
# Remove package manager cache
yum clean all
fi
# Rebuilding the rpm database after removing packages will reduce
# its size
rpm --rebuilddb
fi