[ovirt-users] cloud-init woes w/ templates

[Andrew Lau]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Michal Skrivanek
<michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 12, 2014, at 15:39 , Andrew Lau <andrew at andrewklau.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anyone had any success with cloud-init and templates with ovirt
>> 3.4? So far, it seems to be able to configure things like networks
>> etc. But when it goes to do with passwords, it must be set again in
>> the "run once" or in the "Initial Run" even if "Use already configured
>> password" is set.
>
> Hi,
> which version you're talking about?
It seems the key won't save unless a password is specified.

>
>>
>> Another thing, why is it only setup to change the root password? By
>> default cloud-init will block root, so nearly all images need to be
>> modified ie.
>> sed -i 's/disable_root: 1/disable_root: 0\nchpasswd: { expire: False
>> }/g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
>
> yeah. this has been fixed recently
That's good news!

>
>>
>> Otherwise, you'll login and it'll ask you to change your password.
>> Defeats the purpose of setting it through cloud-init? I'm also not
>> being able to just set an SSH key, it insists a password otherwise the
>> key won't get uploaded.
>
> hm, not sure, Shahar?
>
>>
>> Finally, templates seem to be lacking validation. Where "Initial Run"
>> and "Run Once" will give the red box if you have the wrong syntax
>> while templates don't care.
>
> syntax of what?
eg. you put a netmask of 24 instead of the 255.255.255.0 it wants, in
the template section it won't give that red box warning it's invalid.
Initial Run/Run Once will..

>
> Thanks,
> michal
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
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