Cloud Init Support

[inman.turbo]

Any plans for future cloud init support for VM's, or passing ssh keys during VM creation, etc? And perhaps a plugin for Terraform or other IAC options?

 

[morganL]

Could you describe your use-case and the problems you are trying to solve. There might be multiple solutions to your needs.

 

[inman.turbo]

Yes sure. This is just basic devops support. I would like to be able to upload ssh keys through the UI for use with VM's and have them a way to include them in a cloud init script to run on first boot of VM, or some form of templating. Also applications in kubernetes of course can easily be defined as code, but for VM's I would like to be able to do the same; to have a source code repository that can be used to provision a virtual machine using something like Terraform.

 

[inman.turbo]

And you are right: there may be multiple solutions. For instance it is likely possible to do this already with an HTTP client by attaching a cloud-init iso to the VM. Some testing and documentation might be helpful around the subject though. I may be able to contribute a bit this area, possible might even have a go at writing a community plugin for Terraform.

 

[morganL]

@Kris Moore can help you join the developer team if you want.