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Bug #8601

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use cloudinit like user data in vsphere compute ressource

Added by Karim Boumedhel over 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Category:
Compute resources - VMware
Target version:
Difficulty:
easy
Triaged:
Fixed in Releases:
Found in Releases:

Description

as a vsphere user, i would like to use the customisationspec feature of vsphere from foreman
that means applying a user_data template and have it applied when deploying a vmware vm from template
changes need to be done at the following level
-rbvmomi to pass additional options

-foreman to handle user_data and pass it to setComputePowerUp in app/models/concerns/orchestration/compute.rb
note rbvmomi will need some slight modifications as the current code doesnt make use of all the customspec options. Still, no modifications is currently required there nor at fog


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Foreman - Bug #10305: cloudinit like user data in vsphere compute ressource: missing partClosedKarim Boumedhel04/29/2015Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Ready For Testing
  • Assignee set to Karim Boumedhel
  • Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/pull/2000 added
  • Pull request deleted ()
Actions #2

Updated by Karim Boumedhel about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
Actions #3

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 9 years ago

  • translation missing: en.field_release set to 28
Actions #4

Updated by Dominic Cleal almost 9 years ago

  • Related to Bug #10305: cloudinit like user data in vsphere compute ressource: missing part added
Actions #5

Updated by Lukas Zapletal over 6 years ago

For googlers:

VMWare has actually special cloud-init limited scope support, it
does not pass the cloud-init into the image as-is, but rather converts
it into individual actions referred as Custom Spec in VMWare docs.
Only some fields are converted, the rest is unused. It does not accept
"call home" wget/curl call therefore VMWare VMs initialized with
cloud-init stays in build mode forever. This is known limitation.

https://github.com/fog/fog-vsphere/blob/master/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/cloudinit_to_customspec.rb

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/index.jsp#com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.vm.customization.Specification.html

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