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CHANGELOG for create-alpine-disk-image

Version 0.3-DEV (Unreleased)

  • Move lots of logic to use per physical/virtual/cloud variables in definitions/ directory tree.
  • Fix ESP partition disk alignment (to 1MiB boundary suitable for both 512 and 4K sector devices).
  • When formating LUKS filesystem set the sector size to that of the underlying storage device. This will improve LUKS performance.
  • Add error checking to the wget call used to download the static APK binary to detect things like HTTPS certificate issues.
  • When running the secondary script on Alpine hosts do not download the static 'apk' binary, use the host's native apk. Closes #35.
  • Add creation of a user account for (hypervisor/normal/serial) console-only logins (SSH access is blocked).

Version 0.2 (21/06/2022)

  • Completely reworked, splitting the code into several included "defines" and "functions" files. This was done in order to keep the code manageable and also in preparation for adding additional scripts.
  • Documented PC & RPI, and QEMU & Virtualbox image creation and use.
  • Changed script logging to use UTC so that timestamps outside and inside chroot match.
  • Added support for LUKS encrypted root filesystem. LUKS2 support is not yet working.
  • Added support for LVM root filesystem.
  • Added support for LVM on LUKS.
  • Added support for Doas as well as, or instead of, Sudo.
  • Added support for selecting the DHCP client to use.
  • Added support for selecting the filesystem type to use for rootfs.
  • Added "--harden" option.
  • Added "--optimise" option. This controls several things including: reduction of modules included in initramfs to a minimal required set, grub-install placing reduced set of GRUB modules inside /boot/grub/ directory.
  • For Raspberry Pis added support for hardware RTC.
  • Enable acpid on physical x86/x86_64 machine types. tiny-power-button is used for Cloud machines and VMs except for QEMU/Virtualbox/VMWare VMs where their own agents manage things.
  • For physical machines added options to specify the intended CPU vendor (AMD/Intel) and graphics chip vendor (AMD/Intel/Nvidia) so that only relevant CPU microcode are loaded and drivers placed in initramfs.
  • Completely restructured how things works - create-alpine-disk-image now requires no privileges as it simply creates another secondary shell script which then needs to be run as user 'root' to actually generate the disk image.
  • Added lots of new options, use "./create-alpine-disk-image --help" to see the full list.
  • Reworked how partition sizing is determined (taking into account LVM overheads etc).
  • Don't install chrony for KVM-based Virtual Machines (i.e. libvirtd, lxd, ProxMox, QEMU) as they should use kvm-clock to sync with host name.
  • TRIM support for SSD-based physical machines.
  • Experimental: "--without-cloud-init" option.
  • Experimental: Syslinux with UEFI.
  • Experimental: support for Bootcharts.
  • Work-in-progress: support for other SSH servers than OpenSSH.
  • Work-in-progress: add LXD VM support.

Version 0.1 (08/06/2021)

  • Initial version. Still undergoing extensive work and testing.