diskimage-builder/elements/ramdisk/README.md
Chris Jones 8d1ce9c0c3 Build ramdisks in an image chroot.
Ramdisks are now built inside a chroot which is built by the normal
image build process. Doing so improves our independence of the
precise state of the build host.

This fixes bug 1194055.

Change-Id: Ibc254fbb9e7b404b5f38c1b35bcde8a4136e8e28
2013-07-12 11:09:35 +01:00

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This is the ramdisk element.
Almost any user building a ramdisk will want to include this in their build,
as it triggers many of the vital functionality from the basic diskimage-builder
libraries (such as init script aggregation, busybox population, etc).
An example of when one might want to use this toolchain to build a ramdisk would
be the initial deployment of baremetal nodes in a TripleO setup. Various tools
and scripts need to be injected into a ramdisk that will fetch and apply a
machine image to local disks. That tooling/scripting customisation can be
easily applied in a repeatable and automatable way, using this element.
See the top-level README.me of the project, for more information about the
mechanisms available to a ramdisk element.