Plan for adding RHEVm and vSphere support to Cloud-Init

[jvlcek]

On 07/18/2012 01:47 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 07/17/2012 10:03 PM, jvlcek wrote:
>>
>> I just wanted to let folks know what is happening regarding cloud-init
>> support for RHEVm and vSphere and what OSs.
>>
>> Currently cloud-init only supports Ec2. A version is available
>> for Fedora and EPEL.
>>
>> I am working on updating upstream to also support sourcing
>> user data for RHEVm and vSphere, using the same technique we do
>> with Audrey from a Delta-Cloud launch.
>
> Can you please provide some more background on this?
> which feature set of cloud-init do you see this covering and how would
> the information will be passed (I assume some would be via the vm
> payload).
> but going forward, i was envisioning for ovirt/rhev to better
> integrate with cloud-init via something like the meta data service (vm
> payload of type network).
>
> so there is custom vm payload, which integration via the current
> payload mechanism would be great (since it will be the userdata for
> network payload as well).
> but for some things, iiuc cloud-init correctly, they are not supposed
> to be via userdata, rather via specific named fields.
>
> Thanks,
>    Itamar
>
>>
>> Once I have this pushed upstream I plan to push it to Fedora and then
>> out to RHEL targeting release 6.4
>>
>> See: BZ 838659 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838659
>>
>> Please let me know if this plan conflicts with any known needs or
>> if I am on the right track.
>


I am adding a new data source to cloud-init allowing user data to be
picked up by
cloud-init running on a launching RHEVm and vSphere instance the same way we
currently do for Audrey as launched from DeltaCloud.

That being: on RHEVm the user data is made available via floppy  and on
vSphere
via a cdrom.

I am not familiar with what you are envisioning for ovirt/rhev. How soon
would that
ovirt/rhev pieces be available? Perhaps we should discuss enhancing what
I am doing
and when that could happen.

Joe