setup cloud-init FreeBSD-14.1BASIC-CLOUDINIT network troubleshooting

[vesuvienne]

hi team!
So i have my template freeBSD cloud-init almost perfect but i'm strugling to configure the network in my cloud-init.yml file
so from the website FreeBSD i got this image: https://download.freebsd.org/releas....1-RELEASE-amd64-BASIC-CLOUDINIT-ufs.qcow2.xz
i configure it:

freebsd-update fetch install

pkg search cloud-init  # search cloud-init
pkg install py39-cloud-init-24.1.4

# add this line
vi /etc/rc.conf
cloudinit_enable="YES"

pkg install doas
vi /usr/local/etc/doas.conf # add the line below
permit nopass :wheel

Now i have made a template from this new VM
build another VM and run my cloud-init.yml
but i can't setup network configuration, i have tried many config but still nothing, any clue?

#cloud-config

hostname: freebsd-cloud-instance
manage_etc_hosts: true

network:
  config:
    - type: physical
      name: vtnet0
      mac_address: 'my-mac-address'
      subnets:
        - type: static
          address: 192.168.20.14/27
          gateway: 192.168.20.1

users:
  - name: test
    groups: wheel
    doas:
    - permit nopass test
    ssh_authorized_keys:
    - ssh-rsa your-long-ssh-key.pub
 
runcmd:
  - pw lock root

thx!

 

[stb]

I'm looking towards building a VM template using this image as well, and as far as I can tell, neither the user nor the network info is taking into account. I think I'll try chatting to FreeBSD people over on freebsd-stable@lists.freebsd.org.

 

[stb]

Ah, I see, even though the image name metions cloudinit, it doesn't seem to be installed.

 

[stb]

So it seems that FreeBSD comes with nuageinit, which has a very limited set of supported cloud init formats. I'm trying to install cloud-init from packages and see how well that works.

 

[stb]

That seems to work quite well. After installing py311-cloud-init-24.1.4_1, disabling nuageinit and enabling cloudinit, and rebooting, I now have the network config I set in PVE.