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Fabiano Fidêncio 9b816aa0ac packaging: add generic devkit debug guest extension image
Add a self-contained "devkit" guest extension: a minimal Alpine (musl +
busybox + apk) rootfs with common debug tools prebaked (strace, ltrace,
iproute2, procps, lsof, tcpdump, pciutils, util-linux, ...), built as a
measured erofs+dm-verity image mounted at /run/kata-extensions/devkit.

The production guest rootfs is minimal (and, for some bases, shell-less), so
the agent debug console has no rich interactive shell. Rather than rebuilding
the whole rootfs with debug tooling, this optional extension can be cold-plugged
alongside any base image. At runtime the guest helper scripts overlay a
writable tmpfs on the read-only extension and chroot in, so apk and every tool
run natively against a normal root filesystem; `devkit-apk add <pkg>` (or plain
`apk add` inside the debug shell) installs anything else into the overlay.

Alpine's own busybox-static (/bin/busybox.static) bootstraps the overlay/chroot
from the shell-less base (the dynamic musl loader is not present there yet); it
is installed at a dedicated path so it never clobbers Alpine's /bin/busybox or
/bin/sh, which are needed unclobbered inside the chroot.

The image is assembled directly and handed to image_builder.sh (mirroring the
CoCo extension), never going through rootfs.sh: it ships no kata-agent, kernel
or driver userspace.

No runtime wiring is added here; that follows in later commits. Nothing
consumes the image yet.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-23 16:37:52 +02:00
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