Kameleon documentation¶
About¶
Kameleon is a simple but powerful tool to generate customized operating system images, based on traceable recipes.
Thanks to Kameleon, one can write recipes that describe how to create, step by step, customized operating systems in any desired target format, and then cook them (build them), just like GNU make cooks sources using a Makefile to build binary programs.
For instance, Kameleon can create custom operating system images for QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox, docker, LXC or bootable ISO. It can support creating such images for any machine architecture (x86, ARM64, PPC64, … ).
In fact, since the Kameleon engine by itself is very generic by design, a lot more can be done, because most of the specialization happens in the recipes, written in Kameleon’s powerful recipe language (YAML based DSL).
Kameleon was initially developed to improve reproducibility in computer science and engineering, providing a tool that achieves complete reconstructability of system images with cache, checkpointing and interactive breakpoint mechanisms.
Have a look to the Getting Started to start using Kameleon.
Kameleon in science¶
One of Kameleon’s initial goals is to foster Reproducible Research in Computer Science.
If you take benefits of using Kameleon in you research work, please cite the latest publication about Kameleon, available in the HAL open archive at the following URL:
Recipes¶
Kameleon’s default recipes are provided at the following URL:
https://github.com/oar-team/kameleon-recipes
Also, since Kameleon is the Operating System image builder of Grid’5000, many additional recipes can be found at the following URL:
https://github.com/grid5000/environments-recipes
And the related documentations in the Grid’5000 web site at:
Other resources¶
The following repository and wiki is available for users to share recipes:
Report a bug¶
To report a bug please use this bug trackers:
- For the engine:
- For the recipes and templates: