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

[Shahar Havivi]

On 17.04.14 22:15, Andrew Lau wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >> 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
> 
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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?
This patch is upstream
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/25625/
And that one is for 3.4:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/26246/
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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> >>>
> >