[Freeipa-users] How to install freeIPA client to many VMs?

[Rich Megginson]

On 10/14/2015 09:58 AM, zhiyong xue wrote:
> Yes, that's my problem. These VMs were created by openstack and 
> generated host name without domain at all.  Anyway can let the new 
> created VM can join domain automatically?

I am working on such a feature: 
https://github.com/richm/rdo-vm-factory/tree/master/rdo-ipa-nova

This is not a product yet, just a PoC.

This allows you to:
* automatically register VMs created by Nova with IPA
* automatically assign DNS A records in IPA when you assign a floating 
IP address to a VM

>
> Thanks Martin.
>
> 2015-10-14 22:40 GMT+08:00 Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com 
> <mailto:mkosek at redhat.com>>:
>
>     On 10/14/2015 03:43 PM, zhiyong xue wrote:
>     >   There are lots of VMs created from Openstack in our
>     envrioment. And we
>     > need to install IPA client on them.  I want to create a base
>     image which
>     > have installed IPA client, and generate VM from this image.
>     >
>     >   When the VM first boot will auto register to IPA server. But
>     the VM's
>     > host name has no domain(not a FQDN) and failed to register.
>
>     How does the client get the domain then? It is currently needed
>     for the FreeIPA
>     clients, so you need to either postpone Client registration until
>     domain is
>     set, or override the hostname in ipa-client-install with static
>     domain, like
>
>     # ipa-client-install --hostname `hostname`.mydomain.test
>
>     >    What's the right approach to install IPA client for VMs which
>     cloned
>     > from base image?
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > -- Brave
>     >
>     >
>     >
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