[lxc-users] LXD 2.4.1 - Trouble with Cloud Init

[Scott Moser]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 06:38:05AM -0600, Neil Bowers wrote:
> > Thank you so much - this has been bugging me for weeks.
> >
> > I do have a question, however, in regards to the 'write_files' directive -
>
> I'm sorry - I really should start using cloud init more myself after
> which I culd be helpful, but for now I don't know the answers to this,
> so cc:ing Scott (which I should have done in my previous reply).
>
> > since this runs before users are created (and while I understand that
> > having it able to affect more of boot is useful, but it's not documented
> > like that anywhere I can find), if I were to create the file in `/etc/skel`
> > instead, would any created users pick it up from there?  Or is that ignored
> > when creating users with cloud-init ?
>
> I should *think* cloud-init creates users the standard way which would
> honor /etc/skel.  Scott?

Yes, it uses adduser which will do whatever adduser normally does
(including copying /etc/skel).

>
> > Essentially I'm just trying to set up a simple way to put up and tear down
> > containers that will have all of my defaults in place from the start.

Now... Being off this list and replying to this thread is painful. I ended
up I think deleting a mail that Neil sent to list and copied me, but I'll
respond to it below.

[Neil]
> Just a quick followup, I'll post this to the lxc-users list as well, but I
> thought you might want to know.

> Based on your information, I updated my lxc profile 'test' to contain the
> following:

> name: test
> config:
>  limits.memory: 1024MB
>  user.user-data:
...

I've tested the following and it seems to function fine.
See attached or http://paste.ubuntu.com/23894177/

I'm guessing you had some formatting issues resulting in odd yaml reading.
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