moosilauke18/vultr-cloudinit

Application that converts Vultr Metadata to Cloud-Init NoCloud compatible data

vultr-cloudinit

Application that converts Vultr Metadata to Cloud-Init NoCloud compatible data

Requirements

• The ability to set Cloud-Init User-Data when creating instances

  • This feature is currently in closed beta and may not be available to all accounts

• Currently this only supports IPv4 networks

Installation

This installation guide assumes your instance is linux based with systemd.

1. Install cloud-init on your instance
2. Download the latest vultr-cloudinit
3. Make the seed directory

   mkdir -p /var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/
   

4. Allow persistent rules to be set chattr -i /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
5. Make the systemd override

   mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init-local.service.d/
   cat > /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init-local.service.d/10-vultr.conf << EOF
   [Service]
   ExecStartPre=/usr/local/bin/vultr-cloudinit -o /var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/
   EOF
   

6. Configure Cloud-Init

   cat >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg << EOF
   datasource:
     NoCloud:
       seedfrom: /var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/
       meta-data:
         instance-id: iid-local01
         local-hostname: firstboot.cloud
   EOF
   cat > /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/91-dib-cloud-init-datasources.cfg <<EOF
   datasource_list: [ NoCloud ]
   EOF
   

7. Reboot the instance and it should now be using cloud-init