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| malasfar | GoodMorning Folks. i have two questions.. in VMware KBs it states to enable cloud-init customization use “disable_vmware_customization: false” . shouldn't t his be set to true.. otherwise what does this property do if it was set to true when you define in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg ? | 13:31 |
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| malasfar | 2nd Questions i have when you set “disable_vmware_customization: false” the datasource changes from being OVF which is the only datasource configured to seed=vmware-tools ? | 13:41 |
| malasfar | any help is appreciated answering the above two questions. i m very close. like when provisioning a VM from vRA ( vRealize Automation ) our automation tool with static IP assignment it connects the NIC and customize the machine without rebooting it , I just have no user data coming in with my cloud config code because datasource is changing to | 13:44 |
| malasfar | vmware-tools for some reason | 13:44 |
| meena | malasfar: link to those docs? | 14:19 |
| malasfar | @meena https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/59557 | 14:54 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: seed=vmware-tools is something that the OVF data source would display, could you pastebin the output of `cloud-init status --long` before and after making your change, please? | 14:59 |
| malasfar | @odd_bloke before status is none.. after its status: donetime: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:40:08 +0000detail:DataSourceOVF [seed=vmware-tools] | 15:07 |
| malasfar | running sudo cloud-init query userdata doesn't return anything . so i have no userdata present | 15:08 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: Please pastebin the output, I want to see it exactly. | 15:08 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: (And by pastebin I mean use https://paste.ubuntu.com/, for example.) | 15:08 |
| malasfar | cloudadmin@vra-vmwlab-mysql-892:~$ sudo cloud-init status --longsudo: unable to resolve host vra-vmwlab-mysql-892: Connection timed out[sudo] password for cloudadmin:status: donetime: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:40:08 +0000detail:DataSourceOVF [seed=vmware-tools] | 15:10 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: OK, I'm going to ask a third time: please use a pastebin. | 15:10 |
| malasfar | i dont know what that is.. do you want me to paste the content in pastebin | 15:11 |
| malasfar | excuse my ignorance | 15:11 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: 10:08:46 @Odd_Bloke | malasfar: (And by pastebin I mean use https://paste.ubuntu.com/, for example.) | 15:12 |
| Odd_Bloke | I don't mind ignorance, but I would like to feel like you're reading the messages I send. :p | 15:12 |
| malasfar | you could have said .. paste in there and send me the url . if this what i think it is . all you said is use pastebin .. https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/hd8mjH7CWz/ | 15:15 |
| malasfar | anyway i think i got it now.. appreciate your help in understanding the behaviour i m experiencing | 15:17 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: Cool, thanks for pasting. :) It sounded like you were seeing the datasource _change_. Is that pastebin from before or after the "change"? | 15:20 |
| malasfar | thats after.. before is usually none since i use cloud-init clean --logs before shutting down the VM and converting to a template | 15:20 |
| malasfar | the template is configured with dpgk-reconfigure cloud-init selecting only OVF as the datasource just not sure why it keeps changing to vmware-tools | 15:22 |
| Odd_Bloke | It is using OVF, that's what "DataSourceOVF" is telling you. :) | 15:22 |
| Odd_Bloke | The OVF data source, that is. | 15:22 |
| malasfar | the type usually is ISO from the testing i have seen before .. this only happens if i m using cloud-init as the customization engine | 15:23 |
| malasfar | thats when i can actually see the userdata using the query userdata command | 15:23 |
| Odd_Bloke | malasfar: Can we take a step back to help me understand the problem? What are you trying to achieve by changing the value of disable_vmware_customization? | 15:25 |
| malasfar | i m trying to use cloud-init as the Guest OS customization engine based on this KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/59557 | 15:26 |
| malasfar | setting disable_vmware_customization: false to enable Guest OS customization with cloud-init | 15:27 |
| malasfar | looks like from my research so far Setting this to false invokes the Cloud-Init GOS customization workflow.Setting this to true invokes the traditional GOSC script based customization workflow. would you agree ? | 15:28 |
| malasfar | there is an interesting blog that came up recently talks about how to hack cloud-init for it work with vSphere when provision VMs with an automation tool like vRealize Automation. here it is for reference https://vnuggets.com/2020/01/29/vra-with-cloud-init-and-static-networking/ | 15:35 |
| malasfar | would love to know your opinion on what's being proposed here in the article | 15:35 |
| Odd_Bloke | I'm out of my depth with this level of VMWare stuff, I'm afraid. | 15:37 |
| malasfar | i can help there . i just need someone not he cloud-init side.. i m happy to do a workshop | 15:37 |
| malasfar | someone on the cloud-init side *** correction | 15:38 |
| malasfar | we can have a zoom if you can spare an hour, you will be doing the community a favour :) | 15:38 |
| malasfar | i can explain what i m facing here , which similar to what other people are experiencing working with VMware | 15:39 |
| Odd_Bloke | The VMWare data source was mostly contributed by VMWare, so the core team don't have a depth of knowledge there, I'm afraid. I suggest taking this up with your VMWare contacts, to ask them to improve the experience. | 15:39 |
| Odd_Bloke | There's only so much we can do when working with proprietary platforms. :) | 15:39 |
| malasfar | no one knows .. its already with engineering for the passed year | 15:40 |
| malasfar | like i would love to use cloud-init with vSphere and our automation tool and i already spent a lot hours trying to get it to work .. i guess no light at the tunnel for this here | 15:41 |
| malasfar | end of the tunnel that is *.. okay anyway i ll continue on my own .. thanks | 15:42 |
| malasfar | cheers all .. thank you for your time | 15:43 |
| meena | anyone fixed all my bugs yet? | 19:48 |
| smoser | Odd_Bloke: around ? | 19:58 |
| smoser | you'll know this. | 19:58 |
| smoser | pip install <something> | 19:59 |
| smoser | i can use '--no-deps', but that just feels dirty | 19:59 |
| Odd_Bloke | smoser: Yep, that's how you install with pip. | 19:59 |
| Odd_Bloke | *runs* | 19:59 |
| smoser | :) | 19:59 |
| smoser | is there a way to have it use dpkg provided modules ? | 19:59 |
| smoser | like... only install deps if you have to ? | 19:59 |
| smoser | the scenario here is that we know all the dependencies are satisfied (by distro-installed) | 20:00 |
| Odd_Bloke | So I would _expect_ pip to detect the system-installed packages and know that the dependencies are already satisfied. | 20:01 |
| * smoser tries that | 20:03 | |
| Odd_Bloke | (If you're in a virtualenv, you'll need to create it with --system-site-packages.) | 20:04 |
| smoser | right. this is not a virtual env. | 20:04 |
| smoser | so starting a container :) | 20:04 |
| * smoser afraid of pip | 20:04 | |
| smoser | Odd_Bloke: thank you. you appear to be right. at least in the minimal case that i tested. | 20:06 |
| Odd_Bloke | \o/ | 20:06 |
| Odd_Bloke | I love to appear correct. ;) | 20:07 |
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