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Since the ironic-agent element builds the ramdisk and extracts the
kernel itself, there's no need to actually generate an image at the
end of the process.  Previously the unnecessary image was being
deleted, but this wastes a bunch of time compressing and converting
the image.  It's better to just not create the image at all.

This change adds a noop element called no-final-image that
disk-image-create looks for in the element list and, if found, will
cause it to skip the final image generation.  This is more flexible
than the previous ironic-agent-specific method that would have
required changes to disk-image-create for every element that wanted
to behave similarly.

Note that this cannot be done using an environment variable, because
element environments.d entries do not propagate out to
disk-image-create.  It also doesn't make sense as a user option
because it should be set by the element author, not the user.

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Image building tools for OpenStack
==================================

``diskimage-builder`` is a flexible suite of components for building a
wide-range of disk images, filesystem images and ramdisk images for
use with OpenStack.

This repository has the core functionality for building such images,
both virtual and bare metal.  Images are composed using `elements`;
while fundamental elements are provided here, individual projects have
the flexibility to customise the image build with their own elements.

For example::

  $ DIB_RELEASE=trusty disk-image-create -o ubuntu-trusty.qcow2 vm ubuntu

will create a bootable Ubuntu Trusty based ``qcow2`` image.

``diskimage-builder`` is useful to anyone looking to produce
customised images for deployment into clouds.  These tools are the
components of `TripleO <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO>`__
that are responsible for building disk images.  They are also used
extensively to build images for testing OpenStack itself, particularly
with `nodepool
<http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/nodepool.html>`__.
Platforms supported include Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL and Fedora.

Full documentation, the source of which is in ``doc/source/``, is
published at:

* http://docs.openstack.org/developer/diskimage-builder/

Copyright
=========

Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Copyright (c) 2012 NTT DOCOMO, INC.

All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
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