Re: cloud init documentation ?

On Fri 26 Jul 10:45, mike tancsa wrote:
> On 7/26/2024 9:59 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> > > I guess the step I am missing is download the FreeBSD VM image file. Do
> > > *something* to it to make it fully cloudinit capable, and then create my
> > > full seed.iso file.  What is that something ?  Is that the
> > > net/clould-init package you mention in
> > > https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2024-07-25-cloudinit/  ?
> > yep, the image only needs cloud-init package and the service enabled.
> > However, this adds ~ 350MiB of pythonic garbage into your image.
> > 
> > Worth noting are the EC2 configs cperciva built:
> > 
> > - cloudinit flavouredhttps://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/tools/ec2-cloud-init.conf
> > - firstboot flavouredhttps://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/tools/ec2-base.conf
> > 
> > the latter uses ec2-scripts which work quite well on non-ec2 with firstboot-freebsd-update and firstboot-pkgs. There is support for executing an archive or similar, I am hazy on the details buthttps://github.com/cperciva/ec2-scripts  has the sources :-)
> > 
> > This might be sufficient.
> 
> 350M of python fun.... Hmmm. Gonna probably pass on that for this project
> :)  As much as I would like to standardize I think I will do some combo of
> the nuageinit and some manual image modifications. Its too bad nuageinit 
> oesnt have the ability to just run a script at install time as that would
> take care of a lot of things.  Are there any plans to extend nuageinit in
> the future ?

I must have missed part of the discussion, so I don't catch what is missing in
nuageinit, but nuageinit should be able to work exactly as cloudinit is working,
so if something is missing, yes we can extend nuageinit to support it.

Best regards,
Bapt