RaspberryPi
Kairos supports Raspberry Pi model 3 and 4 with 64bit architecture.
If you are not familiar with the process, it is suggested to follow the quickstart first to see how Kairos works.
Prerequisites
- An SD card which size is at least 16 GB
- Etcher or
dd - A Linux host where to flash the device
Download
Extract the img file from a container image as described in this page
Flash the image
Plug the SD card to your system. To flash the image, you can either use Etcher or dd. Note it’s compressed with “XZ”, so we need to decompress it first:
xzcat kairos-opensuse-leap-15.5-standard-arm64-rpi4-v3.0.11-k3sv1.29.3+k3s1.img.xz | sudo dd of=<device> oflag=sync status=progress bs=10MB
Once the image is flashed, there is no need to carry any other installation steps. We can boot the image, or apply our config.
Boot
Use the SD Card to boot. The default username/password is kairos/kairos.
To configure your access or disable password change the /usr/local/cloud-config/01_defaults.yaml accordingly.
Configure your node
To configure the device beforehand, be sure to have the SD plugged in your host. We need to copy a configuration file into cloud-config in the COS_PERSISTENT partition:
$ PERSISTENT=$(blkid -L COS_PERSISTENT)
$ mkdir /tmp/persistent
$ sudo mount $PERSISTENT /tmp/persistent
$ sudo mkdir /tmp/persistent/cloud-config
$ sudo cp cloud-config.yaml /tmp/persistent/cloud-config
$ sudo umount /tmp/persistent
You can push additional cloud config files. For a full reference check out the docs and also configuration after-installation
Customizing the disk image
The following shell script shows how to locally rebuild and customize the image with docker
Warning
If you’re using osbuilder between versions 0.6.0 and 0.6.5, you need to pass the flag--use-lvm to the build-arm-image.sh script, the same way you pass --local. Starting form osbuilder 0.6.6 this will be the default behaviour.
Notes
Validating the config is not required in the following process, but it can save you some time. Use kairosctl to perform the schema validations.Warning
From Kairos v2.4.0 onward, Raspberry Pi models 3 and 4 have different images. The images for those models are built differently. Make sure to set the proper--model= in your command (rpi3,rpi4) to build the image for your model.
# Download the Kairos image locally
IMAGE=quay.io/kairos/opensuse:leap-15.5-standard-arm64-rpi4-v3.0.11-k3sv1.29.3-k3s1
docker pull $IMAGE
# Validate the configuration file
kairosctl validate cloud-config.yaml
# Customize it
mkdir -p build
docker run -v $PWD:/HERE \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
--privileged -i --rm \
--entrypoint=/build-arm-image.sh quay.io/kairos/osbuilder-tools:v0.200.9 \
--use-lvm \
--model rpi4 \
--state-partition-size 6200 \
--recovery-partition-size 4200 \
--size 15200 \
--images-size 2000 \
--local \
--config /HERE/cloud-config.yaml \
--docker-image $IMAGE /HERE/build/out.img
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