Re: Correct images to use for baremetal
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:18:08PM -0500, Ryan Belgrave wrote:
> What are the correct images to use for a baremetal cloud?
I took me some time to get that good question.
> The first ones I tried were the Openstack ones but those don't seem to
> have any drivers for physical machines. I couldn't get USB keyboards
> to work physically or over the server's IPMI kvm. It also seemed that
> network devices weren't working either. I assumed this image would
> work since what I am doing is very similar to Openstack Ironic. I'm
> guessing ironic isn't supported in the openstack image?
>
> I also tried the generic image. This one seems to be the most promising as
> usb and network both worked, however any network configuration done by
> cloud-init was ignored. The machine always requested an IP from dhcp
> instead of using the static configuration placed down by cloud-init.
>
> I am using the config drive cloud-init datasource. The same exact setup
> works for Centos 7, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 so I don't believe it
> is a configuration issue on my end.
There I read "No cloud-init support in generic Debian image"
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
Regards
Geert Stappers
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