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Potential Example with Cloud-Init files with Ubuntu ARM Images

shantanoo-desai opened this issue · comments

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Description

All new Ubuntu Images are now pre-installed with cloud-init for first-boot setups. It essentially requires the user to adapt the following files in the /boot partition:

  • user-data
  • meta-data (should just exist, can be empty)
  • network-config

These files are YAML files, important one being user-data where one can install necessary software packages, create users and groups etc.

I was wondering, if a potential example in the samples directory can be introduced to make it more the repository also extensible for Workflows which consists of Packer + Cloud-Init

Query

I have been going through the Issues and PRs, but I have not been able to find a potential solution as to whether I need to introduce the above mentioned files within the builder itself or should these files be introduced in the /boot partition as post-processors?

Typically, one downloads the image and manually introduces the files in the /boot
I will be able to contribute a PR once I am able to obtain a bit more clarity on how my query above gets resolved.