Open tormath1 opened 3 months ago
Just for reference, there's also https://github.com/Thor77/hetzner-flatcar
These PRs add basic support for Hetzner (3rd checkbox in the list above):
(Disclaimer: This was done because of personal interest, not in my capacity as a Hetzner employee)
With the above PRs merged, to quote @tormath1 in chat:
According to the release planning, we should get Hetzner images for the Alpha and Beta in the next release. 🥳
These change already support:
core
userAs far as I can tell we are still missing the following functionality for feature parity with the official images.
All of these feature are very much oriented at the beginner users, who are probably not running Flatcar. I do not think we require them, and adding a note about this in the docs should be fine.
This seems to work out-of-the-box on flatcar
This is just a udev rules file, should be easy to get in the oem sysext. One issue I encountered was, that the hc-utils file modified /etc/fstab which is not an option on Flatcar. Not sure how to dynamically generate and persist systemd .mount files here
On Hetzner Cloud its possible to start a server without SSH Key. We generate a root password and show it to the user once. This is then configured on the server through cloud-init chpasswd
for the root
user.
Its possible to reset the root password through the API. This is being handled by qemu-guest-agent on the official images.
I found that qemu-guest-agent on Flatcar was only installed on the amd64 board, not on arm64.
Another issue is, that the message received is for the root
user. Not sure if we can just intercept this and always modify the core
user instead, or if we want to accept that this does not work.
Hetzner are images are now available on Alpha and Beta :partying_face: Next steps are:
Current situation
There is no Flatcar images for Hetzner.
Impact
Folks can't simply use Flatcar on Hetzner.
Ideal future situation
Folks can deploy Flatcar on Hetzner without additional steps.
Implementation options
Additional information