Trouble using cicustom user=,network=

[Rina-Y]

Hi! I have been pushed to using cloud-init to automate the building of new machines due to ubuntu 20.04 no longer supporting debian-installer. Since I had to use cloud-init anyway, I was hoping to push some defaults into the vm's, since I am doing this all with ansible.

The way I am set up currently, is to make sure I have an up-to-date could install, then use qemu-img to make a snapshot of that disk at the proper size according to the settings in ansible. I then follow all the steps in the tutorial on using cloudinit in the proxmox wiki, except for making the template. I didn't really want to do that step, since ansible would be building the machines I need and if I did use a template, they would be full copy clones, which would just cause an additional machine to be on the server that was not needed.

As it is right now, when I use --cicustom, I get no errors on loading the files from the snippets area but when i do a "qm cloudinit dump" it doesn't show the information in the yaml files I linked to. This is more than a little frustrating. Anyone have any guidance about this?

 

[mira]

qm cloudinit dump is used to print the autogenerated config, not the custom one you specify via --cicustom. The ones you set in --cicustom will be passed as is to the cloudinit iso, completely replacing the generated one.

 

[Rina-Y]

Oh okay. Well, the machines were not taking the custom information either. The hostname and users were not being installed and i couldn't access with ssh like I should have been able to. At this point I bypassed it and made my own cloudinit image with cloud-localds (i took the meta from the qm cloudinit dump before replacing the cdrom drive with the iso i made with the normal utilities).

 

[Dacesilian]

EDIT: File has to have .yml extension, not .yaml. It's working fine with .yml

I have the same problem that Ubuntu 20.04 dosn't apply my custom cicustom user YAML configuration. I've already set local storage content to snippets.

dir: local
        path /var/lib/vz
        content iso,vztmpl,snippets
        maxfiles 0
        shared 0

qm set 140 --cicustom user=local:snippets/userconfig.yaml

# dir /var/lib/vz/snippets/userconfig.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K May 24 12:34 /var/lib/vz/snippets/userconfig.yaml

I'm using ZFS volumes.