Re: generic (cloud) image problems
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 02:16:05PM +0100, Christian Tramnitz wrote:
> However, I'm running into multiple problems staging a system through cloud-init.
> Without the packages
> - bridge-utils
> - vlan
> - gnupg2
> it is virtually impossible to use the image for cloud-init based deployment:
> While cloud-init can also install missing packages, the install would
> happen *after* package installation and network setup. bridge-utils
> and vlan are required if the network setup has either a vlan or a
> bridge and gnupg2 is required to add 3rd party repos (otherwise
> "apt-key add" won't work). Both - network access and 3rd party repos -
> may be required for further steps of an deployment (i.e. to install
> automation tools like salt, chef or puppet).
I describe a workaround for the lack of "apt-key add" functionality at
https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/issues/17#note_126311
We (the cloud team) have basically concluded in recent conversations
that cloud-init's usage of apt-key is a bug and should be removed.
noah
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