The Ubuntu 18.04 appliance is built from the Ubuntu Bionic cloud image and additionally contains packages for development, system configuration, and accessing OpenStack services.

The Ubuntu 18.04 appliance provides a convenient base image. You can customize it and snapshot it (running the cc-snapshot command) to develop your own appliances.

• Image name: CC-Ubuntu18.04
• Default user account: cc
• Remote access: Key-Based SSH
• Root access: passwordless sudo from the cc account
• Chameleon admin access: enabled on the ccadmin account
• Cloud-init enabled on boot: yes
• Repositories (Apt): default configuration
• Installed packages:
  • Standard development tools such as make, gcc, gfortran, etc.
  • Config management tools: Puppet, Ansible, Salt
  • OpenStack command-line clients
  • Chameleon packages: g5kchecks (providing cc-checks), cc-snapshot
  • Cloudfuse