Consoles #

When booting from the ISO, BurmillaOS starts with the default console, which is based on busybox.

You can select which console you want BurmillaOS to start with using the cloud-config.

Enabling Consoles using Cloud-Config #

When launching BurmillaOS with a cloud-config file, you can select which console you want to use.

Currently, the list of available consoles are:

• default (debian)

Here is an example cloud-config file that can be used to enable the debian console.

#cloud-config
rancher:
  console: debian

Listing Available Consoles #

You can easily list the available consoles in BurmillaOS and what their status is with sudo ros console list.

$ sudo ros console list
current  default

Console persistence #

The default console is persistent. Persistent console means that the console container will remain the same and preserves changes made to its filesystem across reboots. If a container is deleted/rebuilt, state in the console will be lost except what is in the persisted directories.

/home
/opt
/var/lib/docker
/var/lib/rancher

Note: When using a persistent console and in the current version’s console, rolling back is not supported. For example, rolling back to v0.4.5 when using a v0.5.0 persistent console is not supported.