On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:18:08PM -0500, Ryan Belgrave wrote: > What are the correct images to use for a baremetal cloud?
I took me some time to get that good question. > The first ones I tried were the Openstack ones but those don't seem to > have any drivers for physical machines. I couldn't get USB keyboards > to work physically or over the server's IPMI kvm. It also seemed that > network devices weren't working either. I assumed this image would > work since what I am doing is very similar to Openstack Ironic. I'm > guessing ironic isn't supported in the openstack image? > > I also tried the generic image. This one seems to be the most promising as > usb and network both worked, however any network configuration done by > cloud-init was ignored. The machine always requested an IP from dhcp > instead of using the static configuration placed down by cloud-init. > > I am using the config drive cloud-init datasource. The same exact setup > works for Centos 7, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 so I don't believe it > is a configuration issue on my end. There I read "No cloud-init support in generic Debian image" > Any pointers would be appreciated. Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
