Hey Kent
Unfortunately we do not provide a metadata source (cloud-init) for VM
guests as of this writing, so you have to use the guest OS's native
tooling for unattended installations or IPXE network booting. In bHyve
the zones console is plumbed to the guests serial console so if your
guest is configured to use ttyS0 as console you can login without any
SSH or network on the guest.
Hope this helps finding a solution
-Till
On 22.03.21 23:52, Kent Watsen wrote:
How are folks automating zone creation?
Searching DuckDuckGo/Google, not much is found regarding how a script
could use `zlogin` for per-zone "install" and/or "post-install" steps.
I was hoping that Ansible or even `expect` might support `zlogin`
but, apparently, only if using non-interactive mode?
Ansible could SSH to the zone as a post-install step, but the install
itself would still be manual. I could install one zone and then
snapshot/clone it for the others, letting each initially use some
specific temporary IP address just long enough for Ansible to log in the
reset it.
FWIW, I use native zones for Intranet-facing services and Bhyve/OpenBSD
zones for Internet-facing services. Most of my zones are
Internet-facing, so my question primarily regards "bhyve" branded zones.
Thanks,
Kent
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