Create the Kickstart file
You must create the Kickstart file to use during installation.
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You have root-user access.
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You are logged in to the physical hypervisor host.
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Set the
AUTH_CONFIGenvironment variable to reference the secret file in thekickstart.ksfile to authenticate private container registry access by running the following command:$ AUTH_CONFIG=~/.quay-auth.json -
Set the
PULL_SECRETenvironment variable to reference the secret files in thekickstart.ksfile to authenticate the OpenShift Container Platform registry access by running the following command:$ PULL_SECRET=~/.pull-secret.json -
Set the
IMAGE_REFenvironment variable to reference the image mode for your container image to use during installation by running the following command:$ IMAGE_REF="quay.io/<myorg>/<mypath>/microshift-4.20-bootc"Replace <myorg/<mypath> with your remote registry organization name and path.
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Create the
kickstart.ksfile to use during installation by running the following script:$ cat > kickstart.ks <<EOFKS lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us timezone UTC text reboot # Partition the disk with hardware-specific boot and swap partitions, adding an # LVM volume that contains a 10GB+ system root. The remainder of the volume will # be used by the CSI driver for storing data. zerombr clearpart --all --initlabel # Create boot and swap partitions as required by the current hardware platform reqpart --add-boot # Add an LVM volume group and allocate a system root logical volume part pv.01 --grow volgroup rhel pv.01 logvol / --vgname=rhel --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --name=root # Lock root user account rootpw --lock # Configure network to use DHCP and activate on boot network --bootproto=dhcp --device=link --activate --onboot=on %pre-install --log=/dev/console --erroronfail # Create a 'bootc' image registry authentication file mkdir -p /etc/ostree cat > /etc/ostree/auth.json <<'EOF' $(cat "${AUTH_CONFIG}") EOF %end # Pull a 'bootc' image from a remote registry ostreecontainer --url "${IMAGE_REF}" %post --log=/dev/console --erroronfail # Create an OpenShift pull secret file cat > /etc/crio/openshift-pull-secret <<'EOF' $(cat "${PULL_SECRET}") EOF chmod 600 /etc/crio/openshift-pull-secret %end EOFKS