Re: [atomic-devel] ISO for cloud-init

[Jason Brooks <jbrooks redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 9:23 PM, solarflow99 <solarflow99 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, thanks.  What i'm seeing isn't very straight forward, with no working
> example.  looks like a weak point with atomic, all the configuration has to
> be done manually each time, aside from setting the user passwords and a few
> basic changes.

How do you do your configuration on a non-atomic system?

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> More work needs to be done here for it to be useful to most people.  Say,
> for example if user-data had a simple command to call a script that was
> included in the ISO, something that easy would make so much sense.
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> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/14/2016 07:24 PM, solarflow99 wrote:
>>>
>>> hi, thanks.  but This is a nice working example of redhat's FAQ also
>>> has.  What i'm looking to do is extend user-data to run some commands,
>>> or even better to call a shell script.  I don't know if runcmd can do
>>> that.  I'll keep googling for examples I guess, just thought i'd check
>>> here first.
>>
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>> If you format the user-data file as MIME multipart, you can embed both a
>> cloud-config section and a shell script.
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>> The multipart format is a little annoying to set up, but here's a helper
>> script:
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>> http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/format.html#mime-multi-part-archive
>>
>> Matthew Barnes
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