Fedora CoreOS @ VMware Workstation

main.sh downloads VMware OVA file with Fedora CoreOS and creates virtual machine for lab testing purposes.

Repository contains an ready-to-run example of butane.bu (ignition) file which boots up 1 single node VM on VMware Workstation, Virtual Box or Qemu.
Only VMware setup has been tested.

chmod +x main.sh 
./main.sh create --butane butane.bu --stream <testing,stage,next> --type <vmware|virtualbox|qemu>
./main.sh con

Requirements

1. Installing VMware Workstation/VirtualBox/Qemu
2. (For VMware Workstation) Building OVFTools docker container
3. SSH Keys - dont use RSA type due to CoreOS (lack of) support for it.

OVFTools

Building tools using https://github.com/djui/docker-ovftool

1. Download vmware ovftools binary to ovftools folder, from vmware support site.

https://developer.vmware.com/web/tool/4.4.0/ovf

Store .bundle file in ovftools folder.

1. Build using:

./main.sh build

VMware Troubleshooting

See https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules for building host modules.

Rancher with RKE 2

See butane.bu file.

Ansible for ESXi Servers

Was just for some testing. Not ready for production use - may not work.

ansible-playbook ansible/main.yml -e 'vcenter_password=xxx'