Questions tagged [cloud-init]
**cloud-init** is a tool that handles initialization and configuration of cloud instances. It is installed in many Cloud Images used on major clouds and supports various Linux distributions (as well as a couple of the BSDs). Some higher level tools, such as Terraform, use it.
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cloud-init tailscale setup fails due to missing /dev/net/tun
I want to provision a VM in proxmox with cloud-init, such that tailscale will be set up and running on first boot.
The image I use is alpine 3.22.1 (nocloud_alpine-3.22.1-x86_64-uefi-cloudinit-r0....
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Debian 12 cloud image won't let me ssh unless first boot already has NIC available
I have a little script that automates setting up a local VM. Basically when I want to create a VM it sets up some cloud-init configuration, boots the guest once initially for setup (with a "cdrom&...
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ubuntu-live-server installation through PXE user-data config error
I am trying to install Ubuntu live server. Everything works fine till the system requests the cloud-init configs. I have tried to change my user-data file several times. Ether it throughs an error &...
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Debian 12 Cloud Image Deployment Issue - Growpart can not find grep and other basic utilities
I created a tutorial quite a while ago for easily deploying Debian 12 from the provided qcow2 images that are provided here: https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/latest/. Unfortunately, I ...
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Automate Linux installation
For cloud environments, there is Cloudinit.
I would like to know if there is something similar for desktop systems.
Context: I want to create a kiosk with Chromium pre-installed and running through ...
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partitionning additional disks as LVM with cloud-init
I'm using terraform and cloud-init to setup new VMs.
I want to have additional disks setup and mounted in the new VM, with XFS partitions on top of LVM.
Right now the only way I've found that allows ...
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Stopping parameter expansion in write_file content of cloud-init userdata
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I'm using Terraform and cloud-init to provision an Ubuntu VM.
The Terraform template contains an embedded cloud-init user_data section that contains a write_file directive to write a bash ...
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cloudinit does not run for qemu/kvm systems created by terraform and libvirt provider
I'm trying to provision a VM on qemu/kvm hypervisor using cloudinit with terraform and the libvirt provider. I can get the machine to start, but the cloudinit is not getting kicked off. I know that ...
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Change password first Log In sudo su with Cloud-init
I'm trying to implement this rule with cloud init but I can't, I would like the user to have a password entered by me but as soon as he executes the sudo su command, the system forces the user to ...
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Is there an immutable KVM host OS?
My homelab environment is primarily git repo->puppet apply->centos7 hardware running kvm or guests. Simple tooling but it works.
I'm doing a lot more terraform at work these days and have been ...
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secrets unintentionally printed to cloud-init logs
The two lines of bash code below pull a secret into a cloud-init script for an Azure VM running RHEL8. But each of the two lines has an unintended side effect of printing the secret into the cloud-...
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Cloud-Init boot takes One Hour+ to start
Hello Everyone,
I am looking to understand what process is running that halting the boot up of our ubuntu VM's that was originally configured with cloud-init. The after the entries paint in the ...
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cloud-init does not work for Ubuntu 22.04 images
I'm testing cloud-init for Ubuntu 22.04 images,
So I first downloaded the cloud image from: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/release/ubuntu-22.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
Then I create ...
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cloud-init: Getting the error: No such function check
I have this configuration,
disk_setup:
/dev/vdb:
table_type: gpt,
layout: true
fs_setup:
- label: repo
filesystem: ext4
device: /dev/vdb1
partition: auto
This is the error I get,
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Can't boot arm64 cloud image with qemu
I first downloaded ubuntu-22.04-server-cloudimg-arm64.img, then I started it with qemu
qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2G -M virt -cpu max -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd -drive if=none,file=...
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