When you bundle the image, make sure you remove the /var/lib/cloud directory. It contains lock files and a local cache from the first time it was run.
------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. [email protected] ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Jake G." <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Scott! > > I have removed cloud-init from my instance and enabled config-drive in the > nova.conf file. > > Anything else I should take notice of? > > From: Scott Moser <[email protected]> > To: Jake G. <[email protected]> > Cc: Dean Troyer <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:58 AM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help. > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Jake G. wrote: > > > I got the user correct now I am wondering why this is nessasary for my > > environment. > > I am not using Amazon EC2 services so why would I need to get metadata from > > there API? > > > > Can someone explain? > > Cloud-init uses the "datasource" of the EC2 Metadata service, that > Openstack provides a workalike for. > That metadata service has things like "instance-id" and "hostname" that > are useful. cloud-init uses instance-id for "run-once-per-instance" > functionality. > > cloud-init also gets user-data from the datasource, and that is very > useful for initializing images with information provided at launch time by > the user. > > If you enable config-drive in openstack, then cloud-init will find the > same data above from the config-drive, and wont bother looking for the ec2 > metadata service. > > Scott > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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