Questions tagged [cloud-init]
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Add a custom CloudInit part handler to an AMI
Is it possible to add a custom CloudInit part handler directly to an AMI so that it is available to all new instances without having to add it to the user data every time?
I have a couple of custom MIME types we use to define configuration data for…

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RedHat 8 and cloud-init not running userdata until new VM is rebooted
I have a Terraform script that is cloning a RedHat 8 VM on vSphere V7.
The VM is successfully cloned, but the user in my userdata is not created when the VM starts. If I reboot the VM after it is cloned, the user specified in the userdata is then…

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OpenSUSE MicroOS fails to start on OpenStack
I'm testing some operating systems cloud images to be used on OpenStack. I'm trying OpenSUSE MicroOS with the following butane configuration:
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variant: fcos
version: 1.1.0
storage:
filesystems:
# Mount /home folder (required when creating…

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Amazon Linux 2023 systemd dependencies on cloud-init: Getting ordering cycle
I have a templated systemd service that depends on cloud-init to be done on Amazon Linux 2023.
[Unit]
Description=My…

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Cloud-init in kvm guests (Debian and Centos) not setting interface settings
Im trying to use cloud-init to setup kvm guests (currently Debian 11 and CentOS Stream 8), and I am looking for help in correcting the meta-data and user-data files.
Everything else seems to work, but network interface settings aren't set, though I…

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metada conflict when deploying Openstack on GCP
We ran an openstack environnement on GCP with an arch of 1control_1compute_2ceph.
When creating VM on openstack, the VM can't initialte the cloud-init, because wit reaches the metadata of GCP instead of private openstack.
The openstack is the last…

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Cloud-init installing packages on Debian with contrib sources
I need to install some zfs packages on Debian instances using cloud-init. One of the packages needs the contrib sources. I can get it to update the sources list, but the packages fail to install. If I remove the contrib source lists, some packages…

dj423
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multipass cloud-init.yaml ssh asks for password
I am trying to get ssh working in multipass, so I can ssh user@ip -i key.pub not using multipass shell.
I am using the following cloud-init:
ssh-keygen -C vmadmin -f user_key
users:
- default
- name: vmadmin
sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
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Creating and mounting a disk using cloud-init after a server is installed
Is it actually possible to run cloud-init to create a disk after the VM itself has been created?
I have a VM created on a VMware platform. Currently cloud-init is not enabled on the GUI for creating VMs. I am trying to attach a newly-created disk.…

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Ubuntu 22.04.1 autoinstall cloud-config fails
I'm currently having an issue installing Ubuntu 22.04 via cloud-init.
The server has two hard drives. There should be a /data partition on the second hard disk, but currently, the installation doesn't work.
Error message
Does anyone have an idea…
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back up and restore host ssh_keys using cloud init autoinstall ubuntu
I am trying to automate VM installations for ubuntu 22.04 using autoinstall,cloud-init, qcow2 and virt-install. When I am reinstalling the OS on the same qcow2 file, I have a script that is run in early-commands that checks if there already is an OS…
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Cloud-init / cloud-config to install node.js
From reading the cloud-init docs (https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#apt-configure), it appears that this user-data should add the Nodesource source and key for apt, and install Node v18:
apt:
sources:
nodejs:
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My cloud config template file does not seem to be working when I use it to boot up a droplet in Digital Ocean?
I'm using Terraform to spin up a DO droplet, using an Ubuntu and Docker image. Checkout below:
resource "digitalocean_droplet" "web" {
image = "docker-20-04"
name = "web"
region = "nyc3"
size = "s-1vcpu-1gb"
ssh_keys =…

andres
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Why would cloudinit resort to using iid-datasource-none?
Had my ssh host key reset by GCE.
Found
/var/lib/cloud/instances/iid-datasource-none
was created.
https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/fallback.html?highlight=iid-datasource-none
is not enlightening as to cause /…

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cloud-init seems to be ignoring write-files script
H!
I am trying to configure VMs with cloud-init, using the terraform Libvirt provider.
For some reason I don't understand, setting hostname works, but writing and running a script for additional configuration is completely ignored.
Would appreciate…

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