Questions tagged [cloud-init]
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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 ...
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What is the simplest data source for a cloud-init home lab?
I'm using cloud-init 22.1-14 to spin up VMs using Ubuntu cloud images and kvm/qemu on a home server. I think I'm at the stage where I need to implement a data source because my VM creation dies if I ...
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Debian 11 dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init does not run the graphical menu
I'm trying to run dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init on Debian 11
After I run the command, this shows up multiple times in the terminal:
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (...
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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-...
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Not able to setup administrator password with cloudbase-init
i try to install a windows server 2019 with cloudbase-init. I did the following steps to do this:
Install a Windows Server 2019 with Desktop Experience
Install Cloudbase-Init
Added the following ...
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How to ensure Cloud-Init runs exactly once and once only?
As far as I can see, cloud-init runs every time the config changes. Not just the very first time the system boots, but every time the provided configuration changes. This makes somewhat sense, as I ...
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Openstack ubuntuVM SSH public key Permission denied on first boot
I am deploying Openstack(I tried victoria and ussuri) with kolla-ansible on 3 CentOS 8 Nodes (1=Control+Compute,2 and 3=Compute). Deployments works fine without any problems but when I create a new VM ...
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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 ...
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run a script via cloud-init
I know cloud-init allows to run commands as part of the cloud-init yml
runcmd:
- [ pwd ]
but I am looking for a way to execute a full shell script.
Some people just pipe the output of a curl into a ...
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Cloud-init expire true issue
After add expire: true in the cloud-init script, I can log in via key to the server, but it says You must change your password now and login again!
I want if I set the password, the password expires ...
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cloud-init userdata/metadata not loaded in ESXi
I'm using Terraform to provision virtual machines in an ESXi environment. I do this by having once manually imported the Ubuntu Focal Cloud Image as template and cloning virtual machines from it, with ...
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All Linux VMs on Azure won't boot, stuck on cloud-init (metadata service crawler) initialization
I have around 5 VMs in Azure, which were originally provisioned as Ubuntu 18 and since then I've been dist-upgrading them several times. A few months ago I noticed that similar VMs on different ...
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How do I download and install a regular DPKG package in a cloud-init script?
I'm spinning up lightweight containers on a Linux Host using LXD/LXC.
The sole purpose of these containers is to host "Dotnet & Dotnet core apps"
For a while I've been using Ansible, but ...
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Qemu cloud-init nocloud-net static ip
I'm using ubuntu-cloud images and I'm trying to run cloud-init with nocloud-net -smbios type=1,serial=ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/ as described at https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/...
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Cloud-init for ubuntu-20.04-server-cloudimg works but not ubuntu-20.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64
So I'm trying to use cloud-init with minimal image ( https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/releases/focal/release/ubuntu-20.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64.img ) but it does not seem to work at all. The ...
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While creating instances, Cloud-init stops before creating the SSH keys
We have OpenStack v2.3.1, Mitaka with KVM installed on our cluster. While creating instances, the VMs are created successfully every time. However, Cloud-init randomly stops before creating SSH keys ...
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Mount Azure virtual hard disks on filesystem during Azure Linux VM creation using Terraform
I am using Terraform to automate VM creation on Microsoft Azure. The Terraform script shall accept data disk configuration as below (refer data_disk_size_gb), create the virtual hard disk and ...
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How can I specify what netmask to use in Cloud-init
Right now my CentOS 7 installation is being configured with netmask 255.255.255.255 I need this set to 255.255.255.0
How can I get cloud-init to make these changes?
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How to create a new user correctly in a debian instance?
I am using ready-made images of debian in the qcow2 format. The default user is "debian". I want to create another user via openstack-horizon. So I elaborated the following script:
#cloud-...
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Ubuntu Cloud-init User cant login
I have created an ISO to mount to a prepped Ubuntu template, so when it deploys and boots the first time, Cloud init adds some users and do a few commands. Everything seems to work fine as far as i ...
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Debian 10 cloud-init waiting for DHCP on boot with static network configuration
Running Debian 10 Buster image (created with build-openstack-debian-image --release buster) with cloud-init image created by cloud-localds -v --disk-format raw --filesystem iso9660 --network-config=...
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How to configure multiple interface for cloud_init_nics using variables in ansible
i need some help on configure multiple cloud_init_nics using variable files.
Here is my variable files for example:
files/dict
vm:
all:
- name: rhel7
hostname: rhel7
dns: "8.8.8....
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`cloud-init` does not block VM provisioning
I use Azure and I would like to use cloud-init to install some software on VM creation.
Here is the content of cloud-init.yml:
#cloud-config
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
runcmd:
- ...
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Escape characters in systemd ExecStart fail
I have the following snippet to extract a value from a jenkins server jnlp config file. It works out of the box in the terminal but not as a unit. I want a unit so I can put the value somewhere and ...
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How to use cloud config in pxe boot?
I am using netbootxyz in order to boot my Ubuntu environments. In matter of the facts, is that I am using pre-seed configuration. The problem is that there are some minor bugs:
gnome-terminal is not ...
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How to pass VM name (not hostname) to VM during provisioning
THE SHORT VERSION
When provisioning a new VM through the vCenter API, we need to pass the VM's given name (the name given in the vCenter UI, not the hostname) to the OS during the initial boot/...
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Cloud Init with Flatcar Linux -- Configuration not applying when passing custom file?
I'm using Telmate's Terraform provider for Proxmox and trying to deploy Flatcar linux virtual machines using Cloud Init by passing files via cicustom. Based on their example, I have crafted the ...
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powershell user data script run on restart of the Windows instance
We have windows servers that do application initialization which takes almost 3-4 hours for servers to be online. So to avoid downtime we use autoscaling group lifecycle hooks. Now we want to shut ...
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Can't reconnect VPS Essential OVH after removing set_hostname from cloud-init
I have a VPS Essential in OVH with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I just removed the set_hostname module of the cloud_init_modules from /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg and reboot the system and now I cannot connect ...
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Boot issue on clean Ubuntu Server 20.04 system
I have recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a hdd in my 2009 Mac pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1). I've wiped and reinstalled 3 times at this point. All three times, The installation goes without a hitch but ...
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Set ipv6 addres/gateway with cloud-init
In CentOS 7.3 I had the following in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6ADDR=[address]/64
IPV6_DEFAULTGW=[gateway address]
This worked fine. However, now that 7.4 uses cloud-...
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Updating cloud-init on Azure Scale Set with ARM
I have an ARM template that deployes a scaleset to Azure and creates configuration files and runs a docker container via cloud-init.
All this works file and we have Azure DevOps running the template ...
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cloud-init script with jinja template is not being processed with iinja
I have a cloud-init script, that is using jinja templating. It looks like this:
## template: jinja
#cloud-config
merge_how:
- name: list
settings: [append]
- name: dict
settings: [no_replace,...
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Cloud-init: Add apt source key gnupg not installed
I've a cloud-init script that is used to create and configure a Debian 10 VM and since I want to install nginx I have to add its repository to APT. I'm trying to do it like this:
apt:
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How can I enable epel-release before installing packages with cloud-init?
I'm trying to install a few packages on CentOS 8 via cloud-init, like this:
package_upgrade: true
packages:
- firewalld
- htop
One of them one of them requires epel-release repo to be installed ...
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how to add network configuration to cloud init image to run a kvm image
I'm trying to use CloudInit to spin up VMs in a KVM hypervisor environment.
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 18.04 image and created the following config file:
#cloud-config
package_upgrade: true
users:...
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`sudo` commands in cloud-init are SLOW! How to fix?
I am trying to bootstrap a Centos7 EC2 instance (ami-02eac2c0129f6376b) with bash user-data. Because it runs as root and I need to create a lot of things as the centos user, I use sudo -Hu centos <...
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Fedora 30 cloud-init unable to render networking error
I created a Fedora 30 template on Proxmox with KVM virtualization.
When I create a VM from template and start it with cloud-init drive configured properly, I get unable to render networking error.
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Setting up DHCP with CloudInit and Bonding
I currently have a cloud init file that setsup the DHCP via the following:
- path: /etc/systemd/system/dhclient@.service
content: |
[Unit]
Description=Run dhclient on %i interface
After=...
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AWS EC2 instance stuck on cloud-init
Usually my AutoScaling group spawns instances using Launch Configuration pretty normally but today it gets stuck whilst launching a new instance at the [cloud-init] checking scripts ...
Image for ...
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set hostname using cloud-init
I recently tried changing an Ubuntu machine hostname.
After a reboot, I found the name was reverted to it's previous one.
A quick search suggested this was happening because of cloud-init.
If I change ...
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Set hostname using cloudinit for dhcp server: Systemd overrides cloudinit hostname
For a testing environment, I want to connect multiple VMs using DHCP with their hostnames as DNS entrys. The troubleshooting shows that my DNS/DHCP works. But the VM got registered using ubuntu as ...
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Is there a reason for keeping cloud-init after it has run?
As I understand it cloud-init helps initialize a cloud server. But after the cloud server is initialized is there ever any further need to run cloud-init? I would like to remove it if it is no longer ...
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AWS EC2 - Instance works as T2, but not M4 or C4
I'm having a very strange problem with server instance, which I'm trying to upgrade from PV to HVM.
I've got through the migration process, and created an AMI.
If I launch an instance from this AMI ...
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Disable CoreOS cloudinit
I wanted to try CoreOS for a new vServer. So far I like it but made i fatal mistake: I created it by a cloudinit file instead of the newer ignition method and now on every update reboot it resets my ...
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Why is my ec2 instance sometimes not terminating when I use 'shutdown now'?
I am running a user-data script on startup of an ec2 machine which shuts the machine down after checking the exit status of the last executed command. I confirmed that the last executed command ran ...
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Include cloudinit config to new VM
On my KVM hypervisor I would like to add a new VM with CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud.qcow2 disk but with my custom cloudinit config to make sure that the new VM will start up with all users, correct ...
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How do I enable IPv6 on Fedora 28 on Amazon EC2
I can't seem to get IPv6 working in Fedora 28 in Amazon EC2 (so using cloud-init and DHCPv6).
It works in RHEL 7 with the configuration described here. Applying the same configuration to Fedora 28 ...
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ubuntu 18.04 network after cloud-init removal
I installed new Ubuntu 18.04 on my home server and i noticed that /etc/network/interfaces file is empty. After searching on internet I found out that version 18.04 uses cloud-init package to init ...
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How to run cloud init modules multiple times, e.g. runcmd, write_files, runcmd
I am using cloud-init to build an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VM on Azure. The server I want to build will run software installed from a custom repository.
I use the runcmd directive to add the repository, ...
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