Named after a famous non-free OS sysprep process, my GNU/Linux sysprep process helps my company when I need to clone existing vms. For some reason my apps teams are incapable of installing their applications again, so they just have me clone the system. I blank it out as much as possible, and then provision it like it’s new.
Deploy the sysprep.sh script to the original server and add a cronjob.
th=originalserver350
scp -p /etc/ansible/books/test/sysprep/files/sysprep.sh ${th}:~/
ssh ${th}
sudo su -
/bin/cp -pf /home/*/sysprep.sh /root/sysprep.sh ; chmod 0755 /root/sysprep.sh ; chown root.root /root/sysprep.sh
tf=/etc/cron.d/00_sysprep.cron
touch "${tf}" ; chown root.root "${tf}" ; chmod 0600 "${tf}"
cat <<-EOFCRON 1>"${tf}"
@reboot root test ! "\$( hostname -s )" = "$( hostname -s )" && test -e /root/sysprep.sh && sleep 20 && /bin/sh -x /root/sysprep.sh cron 1> /root/intermediate-clone.log 2>&1
EOFCRON
exit # leave root shell
exit # leave ssh to original server
Inject the regular server deployment scripts.
Modify the td and tv variables here as needed.
td=/etc/ansible/books/stable/clone
tv=RHEL7
pushd "${td}"
tar -zc -C /etc/ansible/roles/localization -f /tmp/localizations.tgz files
scp -p /tmp/localizations.tgz "${th}":~
popd
pushd "${td}/files/${tv}"
scp -p *.sh "${th}":~
popd
ssh "${th}"
sudo su -
/bin/mv -f /home/bgirton/*.sh /root/ ; chown root.root /root/*.sh ; chmod 0750 /root/*.sh ;
tar -zx -C /etc -f /home/*/localizations.tgz ;
test -e /etc/files && ! test -e /etc/templates && /bin/mv -f /etc/files /etc/templates ;
chown -R root:root /etc/templates 2>/dev/null ;
exit # leave root shell
exit # leave ssh to original server
The cronjob to run the s1_init script will be provided by the intermediate template’s execution of the sysprep script.
Upon cloning the vm, the sysprep script will be executed! Here it is:
#!/bin/sh
# File: sysprep.sh
# Location: /etc/ansible/books/test/sysprep/files/
# Author: bgstack15
# Startdate: 2018-10-11 11:39
# Title: Script that Syspreps an Intermediate Server
# Purpose: Convert an intermediate clone of an existing machine to make it more suitable for use as a VM template
# History:
# Usage:
# On the intermediate template, run this shell script and then power off the vm.
# Reference:
# https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/vmware-linux-lost-eth0-after-cloning-image.html
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39370/how-to-reload-udev-rules-without-reboot
# Improve:
# Documentation:
echo "sysprep.sh version 2018-10-12b"
# make verbose
set -x
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
# continue only if hostname indicates this is an intermediate template
hostname -s | grep -qiE 'tmp$' || exit 0
# clean up cronjob so this script is only called that very first boot of the intermediate template
/bin/rm -f /etc/cron.d/00_sysprep.cron
# prepare cronjob for s1_init for a normal clone deployment
# this is mostly for the eth0 renaming again
tf=/etc/cron.d/01_init.cron
touch "${tf}" ; chown root.root "${tf}" ; chmod 0600 "${tf}"
cat <<-EOFCRON 1>"${tf}"
@reboot root test ! "\$( hostname -s )" = "$( hostname -s )" && test -e /root/s1_init.sh && /bin/sh -x /root/s1_init.sh cron 1> /root/clone.log 2>&1
EOFCRON
# fix rootsh
this_rootsh="$( which rootsh 2>/dev/null )"
tf=/usr/local/bin/root
touch "${tf}" ; chmod 0755 "${tf}" ; chown root.root "${tf}"
cat < "${tf}"
if test "\$USER" = "root" ; then
shift
\$@
else
/usr/bin/sudo ${this_rootsh:-/usr/local/bin/rootsh} \$@ --no-syslog
fi
EOF
# disable domain connectivity
/bin/rm -f /etc/krb5.keytab /etc/krb5.conf*
service sssd stop ; systemctl stop sssd.service ;
chkconfig sssd off ; systemctl disable sssd.service ;
# disable monitoring
for ts in ccmexecd scx-cimd ;
do
service "${ts}" stop ; systemctl stop "${ts}.service"
chkconfig "${ts}" off ; systemctl disable "${ts}.service"
done
# remove old ssl certificates
rm -f /etc/opt/microsoft/scx/ssl/*
# clean old log and config files
pushd /var/log
rm -f boot.log* btmp* cron* dmesg* dracut* maillog* messages* prepatch/* rootsh/* sa/* samba/* secure* spooler/* sssd/* syslog* vmware-* wtmp*
popd
pushd /root
rm -f core* *.ansible_backup KASetup*log log.*.txt VMwareTools*gz
rm -rf vmware-tools-distrib
popd
pushd /etc
rm -f *.cfsaved fstab.* fstab-* hosts.20*
popd
# clean ansible bupped files
rm -f *.20*@*~
# clean homedirs and bash histories
find /home -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! -name 'ansible' ! -name 'bgstack15' -exec rm -rf {} \;
for tf in /home/*/.bash_history ;
do
cat /dev/null | tee "${tf}"
done
# fix networking, rhel6 on vmware
# from project clone RHEL6/s1_init.sh
nic_count="$( ip -o l | grep -cE 'eth[0-9]' )"
this_nic="$( ip -o l | grep -oE 'eth[0-9]' | sort | tail -n1 )"
out_nic=eth0
out_nic_file="/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-${out_nic}"
this_nic_file="/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-${this_nic}"
test "${nic_count}" -eq 1 && test "${this_nic}" != "${out_nic}" && {
sed -i -r -e "s/${this_nic}/${out_nic}/g;" "${this_nic_file}" 2>/dev/null
sed -i -r -e "s/${this_nic}/${out_nic}/g;" "${out_nic_file}" 2>/dev/null
test -e "${this_nic_file}" && /bin/mv -f "${this_nic_file}" "${out_nic_file}"
}
/bin/rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger
# the change will take effect upon next reboot
# fix iptables rule tied to eth0
sed -i -r -e '/dport 1270/s/-i eth[0-9]* //;' /etc/sysconfig/iptables
# generate new ssh host keys
# but this will also happen in the s1_init script
/bin/rm -rf /etc/ssh/*key*
# but do not actually generate them, because this is still just the intermediate template
#/sbin/service sshd stop ; /bin/sleep 5 ; /sbin/service sshd start ;
# clean up old sudoers backups
rm -f /etc/sudoers.20* /etc/sudoers.cf* /etc/sudoers.rpm* /etc/sudoers.d/disable_requiretty.*
# when this process is verified, the template should shut itself down
shutdown -h now ; systemctl poweroff ;
