os-installer

os-installer

The OS installer is used to configure a machine according to the given allocation specification, like configuring:

• Network interfaces
• FRR configuration
• Metal user and authorized keys
• Bootloader configuration
• Ignition and cloud-init userdata
• ...

It currently supports the officially published operating system images from the metal-images repository.

The installer is executed by the metal-hammer in a chroot, pointing to the root of the uncompressed operating system image.

The input configuration for the installer are:

• The MachineDetails as defined in api/v1/api.go
• The MachineAllocation as defined in the API repository
• An optional installer Config as defined in api/v1/api.go (for building own images)