Cloud-Init for VMs in private and public Clouds
Initialize VMs in a vSphere private Cloud using Cloud-Init Cloud-Init Datasource for VMware GuestInfo is deprecated The Web is full of explanations, how to use „Cloud-Init Datasource for VMware GuestInfo“ but https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo it is deprecated. It is now integrated natively into Cloud-Init Cloud-Init 21.3 has been released https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/release-of-cloud-init-21-3/23857 which integrates this software. New name: „DatasourceVMware“ https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/953, readthedocs https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/vmware.html, I’d expect it to be in the current Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/impish/current/ – the release notes for 21.10 don’t specify the exact version. Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) is still at cloud-init 20.1-10 according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes which is too old. Prepare a VM-Template Unfortunately Ubuntu provides theRead More →