Deploy Oracle Linux in GCE

Deploy_Oracle_Linux_in_GCE.md

• Install Oracle Linux in VirtualBox

• Before shutdown, be aware to do these things

  • Edit /etc/default/grub
    • Remove splash & quiet & rhgb
    • Add console=ttyS0,38400n8d
  • Update grub

    sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
    

  • Add network script for eth0, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
    • You can copy from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eXX
    • Be aware that DHCP and ONBOOT should be set to YES

• Export disk

  • Be aware that file name SHOULD BE disk.raw
  • Clone boot disk to RAW format

  VBoxManage clonemedium guest-image ~/disk.raw --format RAW
  

  • Compress the RAW disk into tar.gz

  sudo tar --format=oldgnu -Sczf /tmp/compressed-image.tar.gz disk.raw
  

  • Noted that in macOS, you should use gnu-tar

  brew install gnu-tar
  

  sudo gtar --format=oldgnu -Sczf /tmp/compressed-image.tar.gz disk.raw
  

• Upload compressed-image.tar.gz to GCS bucket

• Create a GCE image from compressed-image.tar.gz in GCS bucket

gcloud compute images create image-name --source-uri gs://bucket-name/compressed-image.tar.gz

• Provision a GCE VM instance to test.

  • In boot disk, select Custom Image => select the image which is generated before.

• You can go through serial console to see if boot is successful or not.

• Refs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import/import-existing-image