[rhos-list] cloud-init configuration for ssh access

[David Raddatz]

Hi, Lars,

Please see below for my responses...

Thanks,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman [mailto:lars at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 2:55 PM
> To: David Raddatz
> Cc: Steven Dake; Perry Myers; rhos-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [rhos-list] cloud-init configuration for ssh access
> 
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:27:17PM +0000, David Raddatz wrote:
> > - install/configure cloud-init on VM
> >   If you check /var/lib/cloud, it'll be empty.  At this point, ssh to the image
> works fine.
> > - reboot VM (my paranoid reboot thinking I needed to check that the VM
> would still reboot)
> >   If you check /var/lib/cloud now it will have the instance directory
> > and some other files/directories
> 
> This is the part I can't replicate.  In every scenario I've tried, cloud-init is
> correctly creating the /var/lib/instance *symlink*.

Interesting - I just re-created the issue again and the instance directory is not a symlink to anything but a directory containing a boot-finished file.
The /var/lib/cloud directory contains the following directories:
data
handlers
instance
instances
scripts
seed
sem

All I do is install RHEL6.4 on a new VM, install cloud-init, reboot.  When the VM is booting after the cloud-init install there are lots of http errors. None of this is using anything from OpenStack really - doing this from the VM's console in virt-manager.

If I ssh to the VM before I reboot the VM, it works.
If I try to ssh to the VM after the reboot, I get the "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)" error (which then prevents ssh from working with the rhos keypair in openstack).

Obviously, there must be something in my environment that is causing this (or a difference between our environments).

> 
> Can you verify which version of cloud-init was installed when you ran into this
> problem?

I have this version of cloud-init: cloud-init-0.7.1-2.el6.noarch.

> 
> I think some of these issues you encountered may be solvable with better
> documentation (maybe some sort of "how to cloud-init-ify an image").

Yeah - the main thing that got me working was not rebooting my VM image after installing cloud-init.  Then I could sysprep it, upload to glance and the ssh with keypair worked on my instances.

Dave

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