[16:57] <h3k> I'm trying to deploy a VM using cloud-init. I want to install ansible using packages and use it later in runcmd. However it looks like for some reason runcmd gets executed before apt finishes installing the package. How can I troubleshoot that?
[16:57] <h3k> (Running in vmware vcloud director, ubuntu noble-server-cloudimg-amd64)
[16:57] <h3k> Currently I can apt-get install ansible in runcmd itself, but this seems hacky.
[17:16] <minimal> h3k: if you're trying to use "packages:\n- ansible\n" in user-data the packages_update_upgrade_install module is run in the 'final' stage whereas 'runcmd' is run in the earlier 'config' stage
[17:16] <minimal> you can check this in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
[17:20] <h3k> Oh no, now it makes sense. I guess I can't customize this using other variables?
[17:21] <h3k> minimal: sorry, forgot to tag you
[17:23] <minimal> h3k: there is an ansible module which can install ansible if required
[17:24] <minimal> though I'm haven't checked if it can be used to only install ansible (rather than also run a playbook etc)
[17:28] <h3k> minimal: The ansible module also runs after runcmd. I could probably use scripts_user together with write_files and wouldn't need to change the cloud.cfg and still use packages.
[17:30] <minimal> what has runcmd got to do with runcmd though?
[17:30] <minimal> oops, runcmd got to do with ansible?
[17:33] <h3k> minimal: I need to run an ansible-playbook directly on the host and some other commands as well. Until now I installed ansible and ran ansible directly in runcmd.
[17:36] <minimal> h3k: I did point out that the cloud-init ansible module is precisely designed to do this...
[17:37] <minimal> to install ansible, pull a playbook, and run it
[17:37] <h3k> minimal: I think I didn't get that it would do all my stuff. I'll try, thanks.
[17:37] <minimal> look at the docs for cc_ansible
[17:38] <minimal> and the examples
[18:08] <h3k> minimal: It seems not to work in my case because ansible is not in the repo root and I can't find a way to set playbook_dir or a simliar setting to somehow chdir into the ansible folder first
[18:22] <minimal> h3k: I haven't yet used the ansible module so I'm not familiar with its various options but what you mention sounds like either a bug or a feature request
[18:28] <minimal> h3k: open a cloud-init github Issue for it?
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