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

[zhiyong xue]

Thanks Rich,

The VMs created by Nova include the domain name or  you set static name by
"ipa-client-install --hostname `hostname`.mydomain.test" ?

2015-10-15 0:14 GMT+08:00 Rich Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>:

> 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>:
>
>> 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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