FAI.me - A Build Service for Installation and Cloud Images

Track: Systems administration, automation and orchestration

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

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Room: Yushan (玉山) Live Stream

Time: Aug 02 (Thu), 10:00

Duration: 0:50

FAI.me is a web-based build service for creating customized installation or cloud images for Debian.

It’s using the FAI software, so the installation will run unattended without any interaction necessary. The cloud images are ready to boot in a VM.

On the website, you can customize different properties of your image, like the disk image size and the disk format, the language, a user name and password.

You can select a Debian distribution, a desktop and enable backports just by one click. It’s possible to add your public key for access to the root account. This can also be done by just specifying your GitHub account. You can add your own list of packages that will be included into the image. After a few minutes the your disk images is created and you will get a download link, including a log the the creation process and a link to the FAI configuration that was used to create your customized image.

The talk will demonstrate the build service and explains how the jobs are processed in the background using the FAI tools. The configuration, that is used will also be presented.

https://fai-project.org/FAIme

Talk slides available at https://fai-project.org/doc/fai.me-build-service-dc18.pdf

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