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Re: Bug#826954: cloud.debian.org: NoCloud datasource not enabled in Debian 8.5 image



On 06/10/2016 11:35 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Ok, so would it be nice to do:
datasource_list: [NoCloud, ConfigDrive, Openstack, Ec2]

and then nothing else? Any other suggestion?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)


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