Re: Building OpenStack images with bootstrap-vz and cloud-init ?
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 07:19:13PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 1 février 2017 19:05 +0100, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu> :
>
>> I have already some basic knowledge of bootstrap-vz, which I've used
>> with VirtualBox and Vagrant providers, thanks. But I'm wondering whether
>> anyone documented the specifics of OpenStack.
>>
>> Maybe you're missing some specifics of deploying the VM on the OpenStack
>> IaaS, which requires some provisioning at first boot (like setting some
>> specific way to connect to that specific VM instance: IP address and
>> user password for instance... well I'm guessing here, actually, as I
>> haven't checked how OpenStack does that).
>>
>> AFAIU, that's the job that cloud-init does. And as there may be other
>> nifties involved, that's why I asked.
>
>cloud-init just has to be installed. There is nothing else special to
>do. The OpenStack provider is enabled by default. You can however
>restrict the list to "ConfigDrive, OpenStack" for a faster boot (either
>with debconf, cloud-init/datasources or by overwriting
>/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg).
>
>Also, there are precompiled images available (but not built with
>bootstrap-vz):
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/
Yup. They're use Thomas' build-openstack-debian-image for now.
At the cloud sprint we had general agreement that we'd like to move
to using FAI for future Debian cloud images, though [1].
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/11/msg00100.html
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