Building Cloud Images

Perform the following steps to build the cloud images on Ubuntu:

1. Install the packages:

   sudo apt-get -y install bison gawk g++ createrepo python-aptdaemon genisoimage texinfo python-requests libfuse-dev libssl-dev uuid-dev libreadline-dev kpartx git bc
   

2. Get Docker:

   wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
   

3. Install pip

   sudo apt install python3-pip
   pip3 install git+https://github.com/vmware/photon-os-installer.git
   git clone https://github.com/vmware/photon.git
   

If you encounter an error for LOCALE when you run these commands, then export the following variables in the terminal:

   `export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"`

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

3. Clone`the Photon project:

   git clone https://github.com/vmware/photon.git cd $HOME/workspaces/photon

4. Make the cloud image for AMI.

   sudo make image IMG_NAME=ami

5. Make the cloud image for Azure.

   sudo make image IMG_NAME=azure

6. Make the cloud image for GCE.

   sudo make image IMG_NAME=gce

Result

This command first builds all RPMs corresponding to the SPEC files in your Photon repository and then builds a bootable ISO containing those RPMs.

The RPMs thus built are stored under stage/RPMS/ directory within the repository, using the following directory hierarchy:

$HOME/workspaces/photon/stage/:
├──RPMS/:
    ├──noarch/*.noarch.rpm    [Architecture-independent RPMs]
    ├──x86_64/*.x86_64.rpm    [RPMs built for the x86-64 architecture]
    ├──aarch64/*.aarch64.rpm  [RPMs built for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture]

The cloud image is created at `$HOME/workspaces/photon.