From b7c9867d601417d53f2f667bfd9dde7ea4d4dc2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Fabiano=20Fid=C3=AAncio?= Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:24:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] release: Mention the container images used to build the project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is a small step towards build reproducibility. Fixes: #7412 Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio --- tools/packaging/release/release-notes.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/packaging/release/release-notes.sh b/tools/packaging/release/release-notes.sh index 4b7019466a..a21d5b1479 100755 --- a/tools/packaging/release/release-notes.sh +++ b/tools/packaging/release/release-notes.sh @@ -135,6 +135,25 @@ ${image_info} ### Default Initrd Guest OS: ${initrd_info} +## Kata Containers builder images +The majority of the components of the project were built using containers. In order to do a step towards +build reproducibility we publish those container images, and when those are used combined with the version +of the projects listed as part of the "versions.yaml" file, users can get as close to the environment we +used to build the release artefacts. +* Kernel (on all its different flavours): $(get_kernel_image_name) +* OVMF (on all its diferent flavours): $(get_ovmf_image_name) +* QEMU (on all its different flavurs): $(get_qemu_image_name) +* shim-v2: $(get_shim_v2_image_name) +* virtiofsd: $(get_virtiofsd_image_name) + +The users who want to rebuild the tarballs using exactly the same images can simply use the following environment +variables: +* `KERNEL_CONTAINER_BUILDER` +* `OVMF_CONTAINER_BUILDER` +* `QEMU_CONTAINER_BUILDER` +* `SHIM_V2_CONTAINER_BUILDER` +* `VIRTIOFSD_CONTAINER_BUILDER` + ## Kata Linux Containers Kernel Kata Containers ${runtime_version} suggest to use the Linux kernel [${kernel_version}][kernel] See the kernel suggested [Guest Kernel patches][kernel-patches]