Good stuff (btw I have been using old password init and MSI installer for win2016 and it works just fine for me).
Cloudinit also supports automatic resize of root partitions/filesystem on boot (usefull when you deploy VM from small template but choose to make root disk bigger during vm creation). Cheers Andrija On Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 10:01 <simon.voel...@zv.fraunhofer.de wrote: > Hi, > > I can also highly recommend cloud-init. We use it for our templates as > well. There is also a Windows analogue of it ( > https://cloudbase.it/cloudbase-init/) that I recently used to finally get > password functionality to work properly on Windows Server 2016. > > > Simon Völker > > Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V. > Schloss Birlinghoven > 53754 Sankt Augustin > Telefon: +49 2241 14-2311 > E-mail: simon.voel...@zv.fraunhofer.de<mailto: > simon.voel...@zv.fraunhofer.de> > > > > Am 07.11.2018 um 09:55 schrieb Yordan Kostov < > yordan.kos...@worldsupport.info<mailto:yordan.kos...@worldsupport.info>>: > > Thank you René, > > I will take it from here and test it. Some documentation will be on the > way as well. > > Best regards, > Jordan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rene Moser [mailto:m...@renemoser.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 10:46 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: cloudstack reset VM password files > > Hi > > Nowadays the cloud-init [1] project supports cloudstack out of the box and > we switched our templates to only use cloud-init. > > Unfortunately the docs regarding cloudstack is not that great (it is on my > list to give back my finding). There are some great docs here > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cloud-init. > > Our config under config dir /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ has two files > > - 80_root.cfg > - 99_cloudstack.cfg > > 80_root.cfg contents is... > > system_info: > default_user: > name: root > disable_root: 0 > ssh_pwauth: 1 > > ...and 99_cloudstack.cfg looks like... > > datasource: > CloudStack: {} > None: {} > datasource_list: > - CloudStack > > Note that cloud-init has a ton of great features beside the support of > cloudstack. > > Hope that helps > > René > > [1] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > >
