Questions tagged [cloud-init]
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ssh login to KVM guest created with cloud-init fails with 'Permission denied (publickey).'
My cloud-init user-data.yaml contains the id_rsa.pub from my desktop system.
user-data.yaml looks like this:
#cloud-config
users:
- name: bob
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-rsa ...
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systemd wait for Env variable from external to trigger service start
I have a VM which I'm controlling the boot up process via systemd and cloud-init.
For cloud-init I have a script that performs initialization as follows:
runcmd:
- /etc/systemd/system/init.sh
/etc/...
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Set environment variable for runcmd
Using cloud-init, I can specify a runcmd section and do something like this:
runcmd: [
'MYVAR=VALUE some-command --a A --b B'
]
This works, and runs some-command with MYVAR set to VALUE in the ...
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Is it possible to use cloud-init without touching the TFTP config and without a dedicated volume?
We are currently deploying bare-metal machines using Kickstart scripts. Therefore, I believe we cannot use dedicated volumes labelled "CIDATA".
For reasons specific outside the scope of this ...
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How do I remove cloud-init backing image from my VM?
I am moving a VM from Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS KVM host to a RHEL 8.9 Ootpa KVM host.
When I try to start the VM on the destination (RHEL) host I see,
error: Cannot access backing file '/var/iso/jammy-...
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Cloud Init can't create Apt source from k8s.io due to 302 redirect
I'm attempting to add the k8s.io apt package source to a VM using cloud-init, but the URL provided from the docs does a 302 redirect, and gpg doesn't like that.
cloud-init config.yml:
apt:
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Cloud Init isn't adding Apt sources BEFORE apt update is executed
I'm trying to install packages from docker and k8s.io, but package_update: true isn't using the newly added sources, and finding those packages fails.
Here is part of the cloud-init config:
apt:
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cloud-init queries DHCP
We are running a preseeded Ubuntu installation from disk using ubuntu autoinstall (https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall)
Since upgrading to 20.04.6, we are facing issues when the cloud-...
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Overwriting provider DNS via cloud-init
I want to overrides the DNS given by my cloud provider with my own custom DNS entries. This is a Ubuntu instance so this is configured in netplan. Once my VM boots I can see the following at /etc/...
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How to route two DHCP interfaces to two different networks
I use LXD and cloud-init to configure an instance with two interfaces which get assigned IP's via DHCP.
eth0 (10.23.44.177/24) which is connected to a bridge on the host machine (lxdbr0) to get out ...
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Disable a systemd service before start using cloud-init
I want to disable a service before systemd executes it using cloud-init.
I've tried with runcmd but it doesn't work even if logs of the execution are availble.
runcmd:
- 'systemctl disable docker'
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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 ...
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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:
---
variant: fcos
version: 1.1.0
storage:
filesystems:
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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 service
After=cloud-init.target
[Service]
Type=exec
EnvironmentFile=/local/...
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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 ...
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cloud-init ignores staitc networking configuration
I am performing these steps on Ubuntu 22.04 host:
Download the cloud image
qemu-img create -b ../jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.img -f qcow2 -F qcow2 myubuntu2204test01-base.img 10G
Create the file meta-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What is the difference between Cloud-Init and Autoinstall?
So I have been trying to essentially install Nixos from the official site with a Cloud-Init for Ubuntu Server 22.04. I want to really understand how to install packages that I potentially might have ...
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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
- ...
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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 ...
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Why the RHEL8 system do not generate SSH host keys automatically when missing?
On the RHEL 8 and previous it is usual, that the SSH host keys in /etc/ssh are generated automatically by sshd service when missing. Usually there should be:
/etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
/etc/ssh/...
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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 ...
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Cloud Init not working on Vultr
I am new with Cloud-Init, I am trying to install tailscale and Docker with it, and some other packages
I tried several times and no luck and no error logs.
What I am doing wrong?
Here is my script:
#...
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Password of new user with LXD and Cloud-init
I'm trying to create a profile to automate the creation of a container, but I'm having trouble with cloud-init. For some reason the password is not being set for the user and is also not being added ...
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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 ...
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rhel - cloud-init changes SSH config
We want to use cloud-init to resize the rootfs in our pipeline. The resize itself works fine, but it seems like the default cloud-init config (/etc/cloud.cfg) changes also other settings like SSH for ...
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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 ...
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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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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 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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