Questions tagged [cloud-init]
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Why are cloud-init processes running long after server creation?
I'm spinning up a new Ubuntu 18.04 cloud server and using a cloud-init to install docker. I can see that the cloud-init process runs and apparently completes fine, by inspecting the /var/log/cloud-...
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DHCP lease renewal fails on AWS lightsail server
Tuesday the 12th of September 2021 out of the blue a root server of mine running debian hosted in AWS Lightsail crashed. After a reboot it would run fine for approximately 20-60 minutes, after that it ...
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How can I use cloud-init NoCloud with OPNsense 21?
I'm new to OPNSense (also to FreeBSD in general) and I'm interested to use cloud-init to configure at least LAN (vtnet0) with static ip address, root password and eventually running custom scripts (or ...
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Debian 11 fails to set IPv6 via Cloud-Init: "ens18/disable_ipv6: No such file or directory"
When using Cloud-Init to set both a static IPv4 and IPv6 in the latest Debian 11 (generic) cloud image, networking.service throws the following error at boot:
Aug 16 14:28:29 debian ifup[540]: sysctl: ...
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dnf module version mismatches in rhel8 during dnf-update in azure
What specific command or configuration syntax must be used to resolve the module mismatch errors that are showing up in the logs of a dnf update -y command shown below?
CONTEXT:
1.) The Packer azure-...
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prevent secrets from being printed to cloud-init logs
A cloud-init script needs to set environment variable values to contain secrets.
What specific syntax can be changed in the below to prevent the secret PASS and PSS from being printed in the cloud-...
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Unexpected token within environment variable throws syntax error in cloud-init
What specific syntax must be changed in the code below in order to prevent the error that is being thrown when an environment variable contains an unexpected token?
THE CODE:
Specifically, a cloud-...
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Mount NFS drive during automatic installation
I am setting up automatic installation (autoinstall / AutoInstallation) of Ubuntu server 20.04 Focal by booting the USB installer and fetching the user-data configuration file from a local http server....
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Is there a way to capture/log installations and installation errors caused by the tasksel?
I have an automation script that involves this line:
:~$ sudo tasksel install desktop-xfce meta-top10 meta-default
tasksel: apt-get failed (100)
But I am unsure why tasksel failed. Is there a way to ...
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Changing default values in /etc/ssh/sshd_config using cloud init config
My Ubuntu18 VMs come up with the following default config in /etc/ssh/sshd_config upon deployment, which makes my ssh sessions into them terminate upon 5min inactivity:
ClientAliveInterval 300
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Obscuring password in cloud-init userdata startup of AWS EC2 instance
An AWS EC2 instance creates a new user during its cloud-init startup process, and sets the password for that new user. Terraform is being used to trigger the creation of the new EC2 instance, which ...
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How do I use Hashicorp's Linux Repository with Centos 8 and cloud-init to install Vault
How do I use Hashicorp's Linux Repository with Centos 8 and cloud-init to install vault?
I have tried this cloud-config file without success:
#cloud-config
package_update: true
packages:
- jq
- ...
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Make Python3 default without breaking yum in RHEL7
What specific syntax needs to be changed or added to the below in order for commands calling python in a RHEL7 VM to be interpreted using Python3 WITHOUT breaking programs like yum that require ...
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Ubuntu Server won't start if no GPU is installed
I try to set my old PC as a headless Ubuntu Server.
When I first installed it with a GPU and then removed the GPU everything worked as excepted. My Motherboard (Asus p8p67-m) made one long and three ...
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Azure VM cloud-init overrides /etc/fstab
I added an additional data disk, as described in the Attach a data disk to a Linux VM documentation.
The partition in question is /dev/sdc1. I added this line to the very bottom. Unfortunately the ...
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When using cloud-init, what order are the users created in?
I am using cloud-init to initialize a RHEL Atomic Host VM.
I have the following as my user-data file:
#cloud-config
groups:
- ourgroup
users:
- name: muser
primary_group: ourgroup
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Rename network interface ubuntu on instance boot cloud-init
I have two network interfaces- eth0 and eth1 on the Ubuntu image I am building. I want to create cloud instances from that image. For every cloud instance it creates, every instance will have those ...
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How to boot after partitioning
I have an ubuntu server. Via cloud-init I make partitions. When I restart my server, it would not come up again. I am sure I miss one command to tell the system which partition should be used for ...
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Using cloud-init to modify application properties used by init scripts
I previously asked this question about ordering of init scripts. It turns out that this isn't the solution I need (or possibly even the correct question to ask) - it was phantom success.
My system is ...
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Order of execution for cloud-init-local on AWS Linux
I am attempting to create a new EC2 instance and I am supplying user-data to the instance at create time. My user-data executes some bash commands that modify the parameters of a properties file for ...
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How to setup MySQL with cloud-init?
How can I do this?
#cloud-config
users:
- name: dev
ssh-authorized-keys:
- ssh-rsa AB3NzaC1yc...
sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL']
groups: sudo
shell: /bin/bash
packages:
- ...
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How to disable `apt-daily.service` on Ubuntu cloud VM image?
The Ubuntu 16.04 server VM image apparently starts the "apt-daily.service" every
12 hours or so; this service performs various APT-related tasks like refreshing
the list of available packages, ...
