Re: cloud init documentation ?

On 7/26/2024 11:26 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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.

Hi,

     I was hoping to add packages as well as run custom commands via 
bootcmd:


     ---Mike