Re: Bug#826954: cloud.debian.org: NoCloud datasource not enabled in Debian 8.5 image
Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2016-06-10 21:20:30 +0200:
> On 06/10/2016 03:42 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Package: cloud.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the cloud image debian-8.5.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2 [1] does not enable
> the
> > NoCloud datasource:
> >
> > --------<8---------
> > root@debian:~# cat /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg
> > # to update this file, run dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init
> > datasource_list: [ConfigDrive, Openstack, Ec2]
> > root@debian:~# dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init
> > root@debian:~# cat /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg
> > # to update this file, run dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init
> > datasource_list: [ NoCloud, AltCloud, CloudStack, ConfigDrive, Ec2, MA
> AS, OVF, GCE, None ]
> > --------<8---------
> >
> > Please enable the NoCloud datasource (and maybe others).
>
> Hi,
>
> I can enable so many source, yes, but what would be the use case of them
> all? Isn't there is a drawback if I do activate all of the above
> mentioned sources? Or do you believe it's fine to just use all of that?
>
> Please let me know and I'll do as suggested,
NoCloud is quite useful for making use of cloud-init when file-injection
is the only option for an image boot, but one wants to still use
cloud-init's features for some reason.
Unlike some of the others that poll network addresses, this one is pretty
close to free. It just looks for a couple of files in /var.
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