cloud-init

I'm in the process of migrating our infrastructure to a more declarative, GitOps/terraform style. As a part of this, a lot of VMs will be created using customized cloud-init images (debian, fwiw). Now the only thing missing for my little puzzle is to get networking right. When creating VMs...

Good day I've stumbled on FAIme https://fai-project.org/FAIme/ which creates a "nice" ISO installer that mostly just work... except for the requirement/need of DHCP (not an option at present, unless you could advise a ISC KEA option/replacement with cost effective (for me) static host API...

This seems like a really silly request, but could we get a feature added that would allow us to move cloud-init volumes? Here are a few scenarios that I can think of: Migrate storage from local to clustered, or vice-versa Migrate storage from one local volume to another, or remote-to-remote...

Ich habe mich im Internet schon ein wenig umgeschaut, dadurch habe ich herausgefunden, dass cloudbase-init die Windows variante von Cloud-Init Linux ist. Nur habe ich leider keine Installationsanleitungen für Proxmox gefunden, damit die Windows Server automatisch installiert werden. Wenn es...

I have a CentOS VM that need to be used with `cloudinit`. Using libvirt, I am creating VM on Proxmox with Scaleway. I have an ansible file that create a VM name CentOS_Base, the most important commands are: # Downloading a CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1809.qcow2 curl...

Hello Everyone, we want to use cloud-init to automate the install of new VMs as linked clones in Proxmox and already have a working configuration. But if we want to set the VM name as the hostname on first boot it doesn't change it. VM OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Proxmox Version: 6.4 is this behaviour...

I'm trying to use cloud-init so I can setup k8s nodes much more quickly but the node I set it up on gets overwritten by cloud-init on reboot. I followed this exactly - https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support I've done this many times before on PVE 6.x with no issues like this. This...

While working through the Cloud-Init at https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support to create a Template on my PVE7 system that is using BTRFS storage I get the following error: $ sudo qm set 100 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 local-btrfs:100/vm-100-disk-0.raw update VM 100: -scsi0...

Hi Team, been working with PVE for a few days now, I am looking into setting up a template for ubuntu 2004 that uses cloud init. However I'm having issues !! So to start with its not an issue with PVE per say because when I used a cloud image from the ubuntu site everything worked fine...

Hi! After successful upgrading the server from the latest version 6.x to version 7.0-10 Cloud-Init stopped working. VMs with Cloud-Init cannot boot anymore. I tried to setup a new VM following by the instructions on https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support but the result the same. Can...

Greetings, everyone. I'm running a test setup of 3-node proxmox cluster with ceph as backend storage. My cluster worked fine so far, VM migration and HA are all working. But I just encountered some weird behavior when creating VM from a cloud-init template. Followings are my steps: 1. create...

I followed the instructions here -> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support to create a ubuntu 2004 template using the cloudimg https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img Running the following commands works consistently: qm clone 2004 100 --name...

Hi, I would like to load my clouding.yaml file at the start of my cloud init vm. qm set <VM_ID> -cicustom "user=local:snippets/cloundinit.yaml" However, when I start the vm, an error appears like that : TASK ERROR: can't open '/var/lib/vz/snippets/cloundinit.yaml' - No such file or directory...

Virtualization: KVM Is there any way to stop creating a new default user on newly created VM using Cloud-init template? Right now on my centos cloud-init template created by me has this config # nano /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg system_info: default_user: name: centos lock_passwd: false...

Hi, currently we're trying to create template based clones using Ansible's community.general.proxmox_kvm. To make the clones configurable we stick with cloud-init. We are building the template using a hand rolled Packer configuration which deploys fine (locally as well as in our production...

Hi guys, I have gotten cloud init to work with windows with some modification to proxmox and a windows template. since all of the other threads regarding this don't work anymore, at least i couldn't get them to, i thought i would share what i did. the part is making proxmox save windows...

Hi. I have a problem setting dns for my cloud init debian 10 image. This is the command I use: qm set VMID --nameserver="4.2.2.4 8.8.4.4" But I can't access the VM via ssh. When I add nameservers manually to resolve.conf, it starts working. I have this issue only for debian. It works fine for...

I am unable to restore VMs that have cloud-init drives in 6.3-2. These are being backed up to a CIFS share, and restored to an NFS share. Log entry when I try this: restore vma archive: zstd -q -d -c /mnt/pve/backups/dump/vzdump-qemu-1002-2020_12_04-08_20_28.vma.zst | vma extract -v -r...

Hi, I'm getting crazy to create a vm provisioned with cloud-init. Here is what i do: # create template wget https://cloud.centos.org/centos/8/x86_64/images/CentOS-8-GenericCloud-8.2.2004-20200611.2.x86_64.qcow2 qm create 9000 --name centos-ci --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 qm...

Below is the cloud-init network configuration for the VM: But when the VM boots, there is an additional DNS server being inserted by cloud-init: The DNS server `192.168.122.1` is being added but is not apart of the configuration and is not functional: Here are the steps I used to create...