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

[Andrew Lau]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Michal Skrivanek
<michal.skrivanek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 17, 2014, at 13:13 , Andrew Lau <andrew at andrewklau.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> sorry, I mean which oVirt version you're talking about:)

3.4

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>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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..
>
> ah, ok, good catch, definitely a bug ….(however there was a general validation issue in the Edit VM….Martin? related/same issue?)
>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> michal
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Andrew
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