[pve-devel] cloudbase-init & Windows

[Bennet Gallein]

Hello everyone,


I'm here to talk and discuss about a possible implementation for bug 
4493 [1].

As we can tell from the bugs description, cloudbase-init attempts to be 
an equivalent to cloud-init on Windows.

When having a look at the documentation we can see that the user_data 
that needs to be provided is slightly different [2].


As a first step I'd like to know what a preferred way of implementation 
would be. IMO there are 2 options on how to achieve what's needed:

1. Implement as part of the default configdrive2 generation, which is 
used when citype is configdrive2 or the VM has ostype windows set. This 
would change the current generation of the configdrive2 type, possibly 
resulting in broken setups for people that depend on that.

2. Implement a new citype "cloudbase-init", which would work like the 
configdrive2 generator but with slight modifications to match the 
expected format for cloudbase-init. Technically cloudbase-init is not 
it's own type like configdrive2, nocloud or opennebula but since it's a 
different format than used in configdrive2 and is non-breaking I think 
this would be my preferred way.


Please let me know what sounds more viable, if it's okay to go with the 
first way even if we could break existing implementations or leave any 
other suggestions.


[1]: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4493

[2]: https://cloudbase-init.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userdata.html


Best Regards,

Bennet

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