prepare-images

The prepare-images stage configures NCN management node images and builds and configures compute node, application node, and GPU images. It also creates new BOS session templates corresponding to the new node and image content. The prepare-images stage does not reboot nodes to the new images; however, that is done by the management-nodes-rollout and managed-nodes-rollout stages.

The product content used to create the images is defined in sat bootprep input files. The sat bootprep input files used can be specified by -bc, -bm, and/or -bpcd as described below. Variables within the sat bootprep files can be substituted with values found in the recipe variables (-rv) and/or site variables (-sv) files.

prepare-images details are explained in the following sections:

Impact

The prepare-images stage does not change the running state of the system as it does not deploy the newly created images; that is done by the management-nodes-rollout and managed-nodes-rollout stages.

Input

The following arguments are most often used with the prepare-images stage. See iuf -h and iuf run -h for additional arguments.

Input iuf Argument Description
Activity -a ACTIVITY Activity created for the install or upgrade operations
Managed sat bootprep configuration files -bc BOOTPREP_CONFIG_MANAGED The sat bootprep configuration file used for managed nodes
Management sat bootprep configuration files -bm BOOTPREP_CONFIG_MANAGEMENT The sat bootprep configuration file used for management nodes
sat bootprep configuration directory -bpcd BOOTPREP_CONFIG_DIR Directory containing sat bootprep configuration files and recipe variables
Recipe variables -rv RECIPE_VARS Path to YAML file containing recipe variables provided by HPE
Site variables -sv SITE_VARS Path to YAML file containing site defaults and any overrides
Recipe variables product mask -mrp MASK_RECIPE_PRODS Mask the recipe variables file entries for the products specified, use product catalog values instead

ARM images

If it is necessary to build aarch64 images, then see ARM images.

Artifacts created

The artifacts created by the prepare-images stage can found by examining the output from iuf run or by examining a Kubernetes ConfigMap associated with the IUF activity specified when executing the prepare-images stage. The following examples show how to find the management node and managed node artifacts from the ConfigMap.

Management node artifacts

(ncn-mw#) Examine the activity ConfigMap to identify the management node images and CFS configurations created by prepare-images.

kubectl get configmaps -n argo "${ACTIVITY_NAME}" -o jsonpath='{.data.iuf_activity}' \
    | jq '.operation_outputs.stage_params["prepare-images"]["prepare-management-images"]["sat-bootprep-run"].script_stdout' \
    | xargs -0 echo -e

Example output:

"{
    \"images\": [
        {
            \"name\": \"storage-secure-storage-ceph-5.2.54-x86_64.squashfs\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"e732edda-cd6a-427c-881b-8d1708f9a02e\",
            \"configuration\": \"minimal-management-23.11.0\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Management_Storage\"
            ]
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"worker-secure-kubernetes-5.2.54-x86_64.squashfs\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"26325680-ff2a-4a32-8a88-9c4e16a9e215\",
            \"configuration\": \"management-23.11.0\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Management_Worker\"
            ]
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"master-secure-kubernetes-5.2.54-x86_64.squashfs\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"e5d6254d-57b6-4aa7-a971-7d7e371c94c7\",
            \"configuration\": \"management-23.11.0\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Management_Master\"
            ]
        }
    ]
}"

Managed node artifacts

(ncn-mw#) Examine the activity ConfigMap to identify the managed node images, CFS configurations, and BOS session templates created by prepare-images.

kubectl get configmaps -n argo "${ACTIVITY_NAME}" -o jsonpath='{.data.iuf_activity}' \
    | jq '.operation_outputs.stage_params["prepare-images"]["prepare-managed-images"]["sat-bootprep-run"].script_stdout' \
    | xargs -0 echo -e

Example output:

"{
    \"images\": [
        {
            \"name\": \"lnet-cray-shasta-compute-sles15sp4.noarch-2.5.28\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"6b406606-7bb2-43ef-8df1-40ae7021ed3c\",
            \"configuration\": \"lnet-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Application\",
                \"Application_LNETRouter\"
            ]
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"cray-shasta-compute-sles15sp4.noarch-2.5.28\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": \"aed56a05-032b-4351-be78-a994de2181a3\",
            \"final_image_id\": \"aed56a05-032b-4351-be78-a994de2181a3\",
            \"configuration\": null,
            \"configuration_group_names\": null
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"compute-cray-shasta-compute-sles15sp4.noarch-2.5.28\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"270e0f78-4404-43a7-8e06-1b04123c2c3d\",
            \"configuration\": \"compute-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Compute\"
            ]
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"gpu-image\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"b1c786f5-5004-4226-afbf-ac1e0417ed33\",
            \"configuration\": \"gpu-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Compute\"
            ]
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"uan-cray-shasta-compute-sles15sp4.noarch-2.5.28\",
            \"preconfigured_image_id\": null,
            \"final_image_id\": \"46e63fad-b8cb-4696-a009-d66006f88b08\",
            \"configuration\": \"uan-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration_group_names\": [
                \"Application\",
                \"Application_UAN\"
            ]
        }
    ],
    \"session_templates\": [
        {
            \"name\": \"compute-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration\": \"compute-23.2.10\"
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"uan-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration\": \"uan-23.2.10\"
        },
        {
            \"name\": \"lnet-23.2.10\",
            \"configuration\": \"lnet-23.2.10\"
        }
    ]
}"

Execution details

The code executed by this stage utilizes sat bootprep to build and customize images. See the prepare-images entry in /usr/share/doc/csm/workflows/iuf/stages.yaml and the corresponding files in /usr/share/doc/csm/workflows/iuf/operations/ for details on the commands executed.

For more information, see SAT Bootprep.

Example

(ncn-m001#) Execute the prepare-images stage for activity admin-230127 using the /etc/cray/upgrade/csm/admin/site_vars.yaml file and the managed and management sat bootprep configuration files and the product_vars.yaml configuration file found in the /etc/cray/upgrade/csm/admin directory.

iuf -a admin-230127 run -sv /etc/cray/upgrade/csm/admin/site_vars.yaml -bpcd /etc/cray/upgrade/csm/admin -r prepare-images