[PVE-User] Non-configurable options in cloud-init config

[Zhuoyun Wei]

Thanks. I have filed a bug. [1]

I am aware that cloud-init 0.7.9 is quite an old version. The good news is, CentOS Team has rebased its cloud-init source to upstream version 18.2 as of 2018-10 [2]. The new cloud-init package is already in the repo (could be yum updated). But the latest pre-built cloud image is 1809, so it is stuck at 0.7.9 for now. Highly likely cloud-init 18.2 would be available in the next pre-built cloud image release.


Links:
[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068
[2] https://git.centos.org/blobdiff/rpms!cloud-init.git/c60dcdee662fa585e0ef611c5cd5c48078259a68/SPECS!cloud-init.spec

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Zhuoyun Wei

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, at 23:28, David Limbeck wrote:
> Yes, that's currently the only way to disable package upgrades. Feel 
> free to open an enhancement in our bugtracker. 
> (https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/)
> 
> Just a quick note, the cloud-init version in CentOS is old and some 
> features don't work correctly or at all.
> 
> On 1/28/19 3:47 PM, Zhuoyun Wei wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to set up our first Proxmox server. I am using the GenericCloud pre-built image by CentOS [1]. We use the exact same image already in a public cloud provider. By re-using the same image, we could replicate our production VMs in our office.
> >
> > After importing and starting the first VM in Proxmox, I found that something was not quite right: the packages in the Proxmox VM were newer than the packages in the cloud provider VM. After checking logs, it turned out that cloud-init did a full system upgrade on first boot (it upgraded CentOS 7.5 to CentOS 7.6).
> >
> > A further inspection revealed the roots of the issue: there was a hard-coded "package_upgrade: true" config key in the generated cloud-init config iso [2].
> >
> > There was no way to override this config key as of cloud-init 0.7.9 [3], which was used in the latest CentOS GenericCloud image. Could Proxmox make a little improvement here and allow user to opt out the full system upgrade after the first boot of the VM? The only workaround I could see now is edit the CloudInit.pm file and comment out that line.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Links:
> >
> > [1] https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/
> > [2] https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-server.git;a=blob;f=PVE/QemuServer/Cloudinit.pm;h=5be820c22d58b0cc0014e7dab6412f8d2db9132d;hb=refs/heads/master#l135
> > [3] https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.9/topics/modules.html#package-update-upgrade-install
> >
> 
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