m/test/launch: build image at runtime

Test launch now builds the node disk image from the OCI image, instead
of creating a qcow2 snapshot of the pre-built disk image. This speeds up
tests and test cluster launch.

The OCI image is uncompressed and payloads are not verified, which
enables the previously implemented copy_file_range optimization. If the
host file system supports reflinks, this has a similar effect as the
qcow2 snapshot had previously: Building the image is very fast as the
rootfs data is not copied on disk. On my machine, it takes 30 ms.

The build before launching a cluster is now faster: The MkImage step
taking 6 s is replaced by MkOCI taking 1 s. The majority of this time is
spent by Bazel computing hashes of files. For MkImage, the generated
file was a 5 GB disk image consisting mostly of zeroes, which took a
long time to hash.

Additionally, the qcow2 layer added some overhead, which is now gone.
The HA e2e test previously took 103 s on my machine, now it takes 80 s.

Change-Id: I0ce5059626cc682061c26ac3c8d11b752e641c60
Reviewed-on: https://review.monogon.dev/c/monogon/+/4294
Tested-by: Jenkins CI
Reviewed-by: Tim Windelschmidt <tim@monogon.tech>
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  2. build/
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  5. intellij/
  6. metropolis/
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  9. tools/
  10. version/
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README.md

Monogon Monorepo

This is the main repository containing the source code for the Monogon Platform.

This is pre-release software - take a look, and check back later! In the meantime, join us on Matrix (#monogon-os-community:matrix.org) or Discord.

Environment

Our build environment is self-contained and requires only minimal host dependencies:

  • A Linux machine or VM.
  • Bazelisk >= v1.15.0 (or a working Nix environment).
  • A reasonably recent kernel with user namespaces enabled.
  • Working KVM with access to /dev/kvm (if you want to run tests).

Our docs assume that Bazelisk is available as bazel on your PATH.

Refer to SETUP.md for detailed instructions.

Monogon OS

The source code lives in //metropolis (Metropolis is the codename of Monogon OS).

See the //metropolis/README.md for a developer quick start guide, or see the Monogon OS Handbook for user documentation.