[virt-tools-list] virt-install and cloud-init, feedback wanted

[Dusty Mabe]

On 11/21/19 12:08 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Dusty! I think Dan's response covered the tricky
> bit, I'll cover some response about ssh keys elsewhere in the thread.
> One bit here though:
> 
> On 11/20/19 8:18 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/20/19 5:49 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Hi all. The purpose of this mail is to get some feedback on pending
>>> cloud-init support in virt-install. If you're on the CC list here, I
>>> either pulled your email from a cloud-init discussion on the the
>>> virt-tools-list mailing list, or from the CC list of this virt-install bug:
>>>
>>> RFE: Provide cloud-init integration for VMs
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981693
>>>
>>> For GSOC 2019 Athina Plaskasoviti completed some cloud-init integration
>>> work in virt-install. You can read her wrap up here:
>>> https://athinapl.home.blog/2019/08/25/gsoc-2019-cloud-init-configuration-for-virt-manager-virt-install/
>>
>> First off, thanks Cole and Athina for working on this. This is something I have
>> wanted for a long time! In my dayjob I've moved away from cloud-init a bit because
>> our new platforms are running Ignition: https://github.com/coreos/ignition
>>
>> >From the Ignition side I've added Andrew Jeddeloh and Benjamin Gilbert to CC.
>>
> 
> I don't know much about ignition, but seems worth investigating.
> Probably not part of this round of work though. But if you can file an
> upstream virt-manager bug with pointers to ignition-using disk images,
> and example user-data equivalent, etc, that will be useful to track IMO
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Virtualization%20Tools&component=virt-manager
> 

Of course! I can file that. Regarding it not being part of this round of work,
I think thats completely reasonable. I think it would be nice to consider
adding an option that addresses this category rather than the particular implementation.
i.e. don't use `--cloud-init` as the argument. 

We can carry on that conversation over in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-November/msg00048.html