| SDes91 | Is there a way to avoid a lock-out on first boot with cloud-init? I am trying to create a config for users for raspberry pi and since the boot messages go by really quickly I cannot see what went wrong and cannot login into the device | 11:24 |
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| waldi | SDes91: if you are this deep, yank the sd card and read the log afterwards? | 11:26 |
| SDes91 | waldi that works thanks. | 11:58 |
| SDes91 | Is there a better way to actually force cloud-init to create an admin user for me. I keep getting an error `useradd: group admin exists - if you want to add this user to that group, use -g.` | 11:59 |
| SDes91 | answer to my query setting `no_user_group: true` will create an `admin` user | 12:18 |
| CorvetteZR1 | hello. how do i edit an existing cloud-init config? | 13:07 |
| CorvetteZR1 | i set up a mount with noexec option. i removed it manually from fstab and remount; but when i reboot the server, i see noexec in fstab again. how can i modify it in cloudinit, so when it overwrites fstab, it no longer applies noexec; without having to reprovision the server? | 13:08 |
| meena | Does the bi-weekly meeting still happen? I'm not seeting any updates in about a year now: https://cloud-init.github.io/ | 13:14 |
| meena | CorvetteZR1: hi. How you edit cloud-init config heavily depends on which cloud you're on. Most have web interfaces. and many don't allow editing once the machine is created. | 13:15 |
| CorvetteZR1 | meena, ah, i see. this is in azure. i was wondering if it can be done in the vm os itself? | 13:16 |
| meena | Nope. cloud-init fetches it anew before applying it | 13:17 |
| CorvetteZR1 | ok, gotcha | 13:19 |
| CorvetteZR1 | so i guess next question is will azure let me modify it then? i guess that's out of scope for this channel, but if anyone knows, that'd be very helpful :) | 13:20 |
| meena | CorvetteZR1: yeah, my experience is mostly with niche clouds | 13:23 |
| meena | OpenStack, Nebula, libvirt (lol), DigitalOcean and Hetzner | 13:24 |
| meena | Soon to change… | 13:24 |
| CorvetteZR1 | meena, ok, thanks. i just searched for it, and according to azure documentation you can't change it for single vm deployments; only scale sets which doesn't apply in my case. all good though, thanks for your help | 13:29 |
| waldi | CorvetteZR1: you can disable the correct module in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg | 13:37 |
| CorvetteZR1 | waldi, good to know, thanks! | 13:38 |
| waldi | azure is special as it re-runs the mounts module on every boot and even have some kind of workaround for it | 13:39 |
| minimal | SDes19: don't forget if you're specifying a "users:" section in your user-data that you need to include "- default" also otherwise the default user won't be created | 13:43 |
| minimal | SDes19: BTW I use cloud-init for initial config of my Raspberry Pis :-) | 13:43 |
| * meena is back to contributing to cloud-init | 13:55 | |
| meena | minimal: of course you do… | 13:56 |
| meena | minimal: which OS do you put on them? | 13:56 |
| SDes91 | minimal I don't require a default user, I am relying on the `users` to be configured appropriately to be made accessible for the Pis | 13:59 |
| SDes91 | i.e. `admin` user will be the one configured to access via SSH and other users are anyways locked through password so they can't access the Pis via SSH | 14:00 |
| minimal | meena: Alpine Linux | 14:00 |
| meena | that… sure is… minimal | 14:01 |
| minimal | SDes91: ok, was just pointing out a common issue regarding the default user (which is defined in /etc/clodu/cloud.cfg) | 14:02 |
| minimal | meena: yupe, my Alpine VMs with cloud-init installed are around 200-300MiB in size :-) | 14:02 |
| SDes91 | minimal do you happen to know if the Ubuntu Autoinstall configuration for ubuntu Server works for RPis? https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-reference | 14:03 |
| minimal | SDes91: no idea, never tried it, but I'm sure one of the Canonical guys can comment | 14:05 |
| falcojr | meena: meeting no longer happens. We didn't really see any engagement or value from it. If you found value in it, I think we'd be open to bringing it back | 15:35 |
| meena | falcojr: the main reason i couldn't participate, even when i was working on cloud-init (tho not paid) was the awkward time | 15:44 |
| meena | but i do think that just looking across issues and PRs and the (very quiet) mailing list should quickly bring someone up to date. | 15:45 |
| falcojr | meena: Yeah, PRs are probably the best way to get a sense of what has happened. I think the meeting content was more or less a summary of those | 15:46 |
| meena | anyway, in case y'all missed it: my project with the FreeBSD Foundation has been approved, and I'll be working over the next six or seven months to bring better *BSD support to cloud-init | 15:53 |
| meena | (ambitiously calling this: Making FreeBSD a Tier-1 Platform) | 15:54 |
| meena | the first step is to overhaul our networking organisation, as proposed here: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/WIP-ONGOING-REFACTORIZATION.rst | 15:58 |
| blackboxsw | > "If you found value in it, I think we'd be open to bringing it back" Yeah I'd +1 that if desirable since meena is going to be organizating some significant 'community' efforts that may need to involve a lot of communication. The awkward time could be "resolved" my just posting updates/announcements to discourse and let comments/questions flow through that at folks' reasonable waking/working hours. | 15:59 |
| blackboxsw | *resolved by just posting to discouse for async communication/updates* | 16:00 |
| falcojr | meena: Glad to have you back on the project! | 16:01 |
| meena | i'd be very happy to finish what i started *checks notes* 4 years ago. | 16:04 |
| meena | I have a question of… Form… | 19:16 |
| meena | In the past, when the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored work on external projects, people added Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation to their commit messages. See for example: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/bdb4468d39496088fc05d8c5575647fac9c8062a | 19:17 |
| ubottu | Commit bdb4468 in llvm/llvm-project "[gdb-remote] Move broadcasting logic down to GDBRemoteClientBase" | 19:17 |
| meena | Is it okay for me to do that in my PRs? | 19:17 |
| falcojr | meena: yeah, that should be fine. Other organizations do similar things | 21:00 |
| falcojr | well, maybe not similar, but not uncommon to see downstream bug trackers or signed off statements | 21:01 |
| blackboxsw | cjp256: open question for you as to how Azure wants to handle potential absence of IMDS https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1725#issuecomment-1244558085 | 22:01 |
| ubottu | Pull 1725 in canonical/cloud-init "define new attribute for pre-22.3 pickles" [Merged] | 22:01 |
| cjp256 | thanks blackboxsw! I will get on it first thing in the morning | 22:09 |
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