| haroon | hello everyone is there something like a cloud-init repository, where people shared they cloud-init config. so I can see some examples and maybe modify and use them for myself? | 11:47 |
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| aciba | haroon: hi! There are examples under: https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/examples.html | 11:49 |
| aciba | which is baked by https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/tree/main/doc/examples | 11:49 |
| aciba | Each modules as its documentation and more examples in: https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html | 11:50 |
| aciba | * Each module has its documentation and more examples in: https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html | 11:50 |
| haroon | thanks links and for the information! I know about the docs, but I was looking for something more like ansible-galaxy. I.e I want to setup a glusterfs and someone shared their cloud-init and I just need to modify it a bit for my usecase. | 11:54 |
| haroon | I've found seen a few exampled on some random github here and there where people shared their could-init files, but nothing like a propper collectioin, which you can browse. | 11:55 |
| minimal | haroon: different people would likely use different methods to set up stuff like that | 12:52 |
| minimal | i.e. cloud-init does have an ansible module to run playbooks | 12:52 |
| minimal | others might use shell scripts with either cloud-init write_files or runcmd using curl to put the scripts onto the machine before cloud-init runs it etc | 12:53 |
| Odd_Bloke | I suggested something like this a few years back (perhaps only to Canonical folks at a sprint) as a platform-agnostic alternative to "marketplace images": instead of a pre-baked image, you would use off-the-shelf cloud-config with a compatible base image to get approximately the same outcome. | 13:42 |
| Odd_Bloke | Then the vendor-specific "magic" is all contained in cloud-config so it's easy to understand what's being done to your instance, it's easier to modify how it's being done without having to fight against the vendor's built-in config, and possible to attempt porting the config to, e.g., a newer Ubuntu release (instead of relying on the vendor to update that bionic-based image any day now we | 13:46 |
| Odd_Bloke | promise :p). | 13:46 |
| Odd_Bloke | (And the platform-agnostic aspect makes it easier to test locally, move your workload between platforms, or host it on multiple platforms for redundancy, etc.) | 13:48 |
| minimal | Odd_Bloke: there's the problem/issue of user-data for distro-specific package repos though - would such an off-the-shelf cloud-config have "apt:" and "apk:" and "zypper:" etc sections? | 15:37 |
| minimal | also there's the matter of other cloud-init modules that are distro-limited, e.g. "lxd" is only for Ubuntu presently... | 15:37 |
| Odd_Bloke | minimal: I think the main problem to solve there would be how to help users identify "a compatible base image" and/or how to make it very obvious if they attempted to use off-the-shelf cloud-config on an unsupported image: with that in place, the cloud-config (and/or cloud-init itself) could be iterated to expand compatibility. | 17:12 |
| Odd_Bloke | (In the context of marketplace images, a cloud-config which only works on Ubuntu 22.04 is still more useful for non-Ubuntu users than a pre-baked-on-private-infra 22.04 image.) | 17:15 |
| blackboxsw | hiya Odd_Bloke :) | 18:22 |
| blackboxsw | per haroon's: earlier query about a library of examples there is also a work in progress by our docs team person s-makin to surface a doc url that will represent common categorized set of examples which are vetted and easier to browse. This doesn't get all the way to a direct searchable pool of images, but it gets a step closer to canned examples that could be used/adapted in various capacities. | 18:23 |
| blackboxsw | I think it'd be neat to provide a process to easily allow others to supplement that library of examples to aid new admins in creating complex cloud-config for certain use-cases. | 18:24 |
| blackboxsw | also to make it easier to cut-n-paste examples for local modification I know Sally has put up multiple PRs to make sure any of docs containing cloud-config examples surface a copy button action and contain the leading #cloud-config declaration to make sure those examples can be easily modified by others. I realize it's only a small step toward enabling reuse and adaptation by others, but the trend is to make it easier. | 18:26 |
| blackboxsw | https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/5427 is one of those PRs | 18:27 |
| -ubottu:#cloud-init- Pull 5427 in canonical/cloud-init "Doc: Module docs pt3" [Open] | 18:27 | |
| Odd_Bloke | blackboxsw: Hey! :) | 19:10 |
| blackboxsw | ok, enough is enough on milestone 24.2. We've sorted any integration-test platform issues we are seeing and are comfortable with the signal we are getting on clouds. we have a couple of PRs left to land (integration test fixes & ability to define a downstream version above which new deprecation warnings will only generate info-level message). The plan is to publish tip of main to Ubuntu Oracular today. | 19:13 |
| blackboxsw | commuinty-notice: 24.2 milestone should be cut tomorrow once we scrub integration test validation. Any open PRs will be targeted to 24.3 milestone, which is really only ~6 weeks away | 19:15 |
| blackboxsw | community-notice: 24.2 milestone should be cut tomorrow once we scrub integration test validation. Any open PRs will be targeted to 24.3 milestone, which is really only ~6 weeks away | 19:16 |
| blackboxsw | before we SRU 24.2, there are a couple of downstream fixes/quilt patches we'll be applying to Ubuntu which are reprsented as the open issues/PRS here https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/milestone/1 | 19:18 |
| errcsool | I am having some issues with using cloud-init to setup a multipass instance. can i post my info here for debug assistance? | 19:49 |
| holmanb | errcsool: sure, but no need to ask to ask on irc | 22:45 |
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