Cloud-init is disabled in Ubuntu 24.04 images with `vm_guest_os_cloudinit=true`

sepsh commented 4 months ago

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Project Version

develop

VMware vSphere

7.0.3

HashiCorp Packer

1.11.0

HashiCorp Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere

1.3.0

Guest Operating System

Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

Environment Details

Built with vm_guest_os_cloudinit=true
Packer host: Packer 1.11.0
Packer host: Packer vSphere plugin 1.3.0
Packer host: Python 3.12.3
Packer host: Ansible 10.0.1
Terraform host: Terraform 1.6.0
Terraform host: Terraform vSphere provider 2.5.1
Packer, Terraform, Ansible host: Kubuntu 22.04
vSphere version 7.0.3
Guest OS ubuntu-24.04-live-server-amd64.iso
Guest OS open-vm-tools 2:12.3.5-5build3
Guest OS cloud-init 24.1.3-0ubuntu3.3

Description

Hi. When I tried building an image from Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS and cloning it with Terraform, I noticed that the user configuration, hostname and network configuration and other stuff set in cloud-init templates, was not applied.

Then I ran:

cloud-init status

I got disabled

Expected Behavior

Cloud-init beeing enabled

Actual Behavior

Cloud-init is not enabled

Steps to Reproduce

Build an image using builds/linux/ubuntu/24-04-lts and set vm_guest_os_cloudinit=true
Provision a Virtual Machine using terraform/vsphere-virtual-machine/content-library-ovf-linux-cloud-init
Login into the VM and Check if any config from terraform/vsphere-virtual-machine/content-library-ovf-linux-cloud-init/metadata.yml or terraform/vsphere-virtual-machine/content-library-ovf-linux-cloud-init/userdata.yml was applied
run cloud-init status
Check if the file /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled is present.
Ensure that by checking cat /var/lib/cloud/instances/iid-datasource-none/cloud-config.txt and see if that looks like this:

Log Fragments and Files

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Screenshots

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Additional Context

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tenthirtyam commented 4 months ago

@burnsjared0415 can you take a look at this one?

sepsh commented 4 months ago

One way to fix that could be to add a task in packer/ansible/roles/configure/tasks right before https://github.com/vmware-samples/packer-examples-for-vsphere/blob/d2fde04a56867801bdaeb550e8aed3bf8e62af3f/ansible/roles/configure/tasks/debian.yml#L51

Just adding this could fix it maybe,

- file:
    path: "/etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled"
    state: absent

but I'm not sure if it's the best way since this document exist: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/disable_cloud_init.html#method-2-kernel-command-line

burnsjared0415 commented 4 months ago

will take look this afternoon and look at the suggestion and test.

sepsh commented 4 months ago

thanks a lot

burnsjared0415 commented 4 months ago

@sepsh pull request is in to fix the issue, if you want to pull down the fix and see if it works?

tenthirtyam commented 4 months ago

Addressed in #940.

sepsh commented 4 months ago

Hi, Sorry for my delay. That solved my problem, Thanks a lot.

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