Re: cloud init documentation ?

On Fri 26 Jul 11:37, mike tancsa wrote:
> 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:

I haven't implemented it yet because it is os per os and nothing standard in
cloudinit for packages, but yes this is something that could/should implemented
for sure!

About the execution of command I have nothing against as well.

Best regards,
Bapt