octavia-diskimage-retrofit2.0.0+gitrc1

Convert a stock Ubuntu Cloud Image into an image suitable for an OpenStack Octavia HAProxy amphora. octavia-diskimage-retrofit applies the OpenStack Diskimage-builder elements supplied by OpenStack Octavia, adding the image changes required by Octavia’s amphora-based load-balancing architecture. The result is a retrofit image that can be used when provisioning Octavia amphora instances.

The command-line program takes a source cloud-image file and a destination path, allowing an image such as jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img to be transformed into ubuntu-amphora-haproxy-amd64.qcow2. It is intended for OpenStack administrators and cloud engineers preparing custom Octavia images from standard Ubuntu cloud-image releases. A typical use case is creating a repeatable HAProxy amphora image for an Octavia deployment instead of adapting the stock image manually.

Canonical publishes version 2.0.0+gitrc1 as open-source software for Linux on x86_64 (amd64) systems. Running it requires Linux with snapd available. The tool uses KVM acceleration when that capability is available, which can improve the image-building process on hosts that provide it.