[plug] Ubuntu - AutoInstall - Cloud-Init setup

[Alex]

Thanks for this. I have tried this, but it didn’t work. I registered on the
ubuntu-users mailing list a couple of days ago, but haven’t been accepted
yet. 

 

Any other suggestions.

 

Kind regards

Alex

 

From: Byron Hammond <byronester at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 7 January 2021 20:53
To: Alex <alex at spottedmouse.com>
Subject: Re: [plug] Ubuntu - AutoInstall - Cloud-Init setup

 

Hi Alex

 

While I haven't done what you're doing before, from what I gather since the
semicolon finishes a command, you need to escape it.

 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="serial=ds=nocloud-net\;seedfrom=http://192.168.
0.172/ubuntu/config/"

 

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="serial=ds=nocloud-net\;seedfrom=http://192.168.0.172/ub
un

tu/config/"

 

Give it a try and let us know how it goes

 

Best regards

Byron

from my Tablet

 

On Thu, 7 Jan. 2021, 6:36 pm Alex, <alex at spottedmouse.com
<mailto:alex at spottedmouse.com> > wrote:

I am trying to setup a number of new servers on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS. So far I
got the auto-install via PXE working. 



My plan is to use autoinstall for the basic setup to install the OS,
partition table and initial user.



Once installed I was hoping to use something like clout-init / nocloud to
install the customisation need to security and monitoring. Ideally I was
just hoping to connect it to chef using cloud-init.



However I have not been able to get cloud-init / nocloud-net datasource
working. 



Tried updating /etc/default/grub with the following

Code:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

GRUB_TIMEOUT=30

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="serial=ds=nocloud-net;seedfrom=http://192.168.0
.
172/ubuntu/config/"

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="serial=ds=nocloud-net;seedfrom=http://192.168.0.172/ubu
n <http://192.168.0.172/ubuntu/config/> 
tu/config/"



Can any of my fellow pluggers point me in the right direction on how to get
nocloud-net working ?



No matter what I try it always reports:



root at ubuntu-base:/home/user# cloud-init status --long
status: done
time: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:53:14 +0000
detail:
DataSourceNone



And the httpd host which provides the configuration files is never
accessed.



Kind regards

Alex

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