NFS

The nfs deployment method is used to deploy a rootfs and optional kernel modules to the NFS server that running on the LAVA worker.

nfsrootfs

A compressed tarball containing the rootfs.

deploy:
  to: nfs
  nfsrootfs:
    url: https://example.com/rootfs.tar.xz
    compression: xz

modules

Optional. A compressed tarball containing kernel modules.

deploy:
  to: nfs
  nfsrootfs:
    url: https://example.com/rootfs.tar.xz
    compression: xz
  modules:
    url: https://example.com/modules.tar.xz
    compression: xz

overlays

The nfsrootfs action supports overlays with the format specified.

See overlays

images

Alternatively, you can specify a list of images to deploy. Here is an example nfs deploy action for the qemu-nfs boot method.

- deploy:
    to: nfs
    images:
      nfsrootfs:
        url: http://example.com/jessie-arm64-nfs.tar.gz
        image_arg: 'nfsroot={NFS_SERVER_IP}:{nfsrootfs},tcp,hard'
        compression: gz
      kernel:
        url: http://example.com/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-arm64
        image_arg: -kernel {kernel}
      initrd:
        url: http://example.com/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-arm64
        image_arg: -initrd {initrd}

image_arg

See image_arg