Installing and configuring cloud-init on SLES

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Before you capture a virtual machine, you need to install the cloud-init package. This topic provides you details about cloud-init installation procedure for SLES.

Install cloud-init on SLES

Notes:
  • Install dependencies are available in SLES media or SUSE cloud repositories. If you are unable to configure, contact SUSE support. TEST TEST TEST
  • If you do not have access to SUSE repository, you can create your own repository from SUSE media. See Configuring cloud-init dependencies for more details.
  • For troubleshooting steps related to MAC address conflict issues, see MAC address conflict.

  1. Follow these steps to install cloud-init on SLES 12 and SLES 15:

    PowerVC supports only cloud-init-19.1 version for SLES 12 and SLES 15.

    1. Perform the following steps to configure cloud-init-19.1 for SLES 12 and SLES 15. .

      1. To configure SUSE repository, run SUSEConnect -p sle-module-public-cloud/<SLES versions>/ppc64le. Before installing cloud-init, make sure the following packages are installed. Install cloud-init by running zypper install <package-name>. You can ignore any package signing related message and continue with the installation.

        Table 1. SLES packages
        SLES 12 SLES 15 
        e2fsprogs 
iproute 
net-tools 
policycoreutils-python 
procps 
python(abi) = 2.7 
python-PrettyTable 
python-PyYAML 
python-configobj 
python-jinja2 
python-jsonpatch 
python-jsonschema 
python-oauthlib 
python-requests 
python-setuptools 
python-six
        		 
        xfsprogs
python3-oauthlib
python3-Jinja2
python3-PyYAML
python3-distro
python3-jsonpatch
python3-jsonschema
python3-PrettyTable
python3-requests
python3-configobj
      2. For SLES 12, obtain the RPM from PowerVC SLES 12 public repo. For SLES 15, obtain the RPM from PowerVC SLES 15 public repo.
      3. Install cloud-init by running zypper install download_path/<cloud-init package>.
      4. Enable root login in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg by setting the below:
        disable_root: false
        Add the following fields after preserve_hostname and remove disable_ec2_metadata module from /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg:
        datasource_list: [ ConfigDrive, None ]
datasource:
  ConfigDrive:
    dsmode: local
      5. Run the following commands to enable and start the cloud-init related services.
        systemctl enable cloud-init-local.service 
systemctl enable cloud-init.service
systemctl enable cloud-config.service
systemctl enable cloud-final.service
systemctl start cloud-init.service
systemctl start cloud-init-local.service
systemctl start cloud-config.service 
systemctl start cloud-final.service
      6. Run cloud-init status to check the cloud-init installation status. Make sure the status shows as Done.
  2. Compared to community cloud-init, PowerVC provides additional modules that must be configured in the cloud-init config file for proper functioning of RMC and hostname. Follow the steps in PowerVC cloud-init modules.