Is there any guide/page on writing a compute resource plugin that supports
cloud init? I'm contemplating working with xen-orchestra, and writing a
plugin to interface with that (as it provides cloudinit for xenserver)

On Mar 28, 2017 07:29, "Lukas Zapletal" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did small review today and this is the list of providers and their
> support:
>
> Finish script support:
> - bare metal
> - openstack
> - amazon ec2
> - rackspace
> - gce
>
> Cloud-init script support:
> - ovirt/rhev
> - vmware (*)
> - openstack
> - amazon ec2
> - rackspace
>
> (*) 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
>
> Any comments on that? We often get questions on this topic, I plan to
> put this into docs.
>
> --
> Later,
>   Lukas @lzap Zapletal
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