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Introduction

As part of the Guest setup feature, Abiquo supports Configuration drive feature in private cloud datacenters for automating first boot configuration. And in public cloud datacenters, Abiquo supports cloud-init. 

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• Abiquo creates an ISO disk on the VM, so your VM must have fewer than four IDE disks attached before you begin

• If there is bootstrap data, Abiquo creates an ISO disk 
  

  1. Abiquo will check that there are fewer than 4 IDE drives before attaching the ISO because that is the maximum number you can attach to the VM 

  2. The ISO disk has the label "config-2"

  3. Abiquo adds the following files to the folder "openstack/latest"
     

     1. user_data: Abiquo VM Bootstrap script

     2. vm-variables.rc:  Abiquo VM variables that are in 'key'='value'

     3. meta_data.json: Abiquo VirtualMachineIdentifier. The meta_data.json file is in the following format:

     4. If DHCP is not used in your environment, the network configuration of the VM will be placed in network_data.json file

  • You must obtain or create a template that runs cloud-init services or cloudbase-init services (for Windows), or a similar system. The template that you use will determine what the VM will do with the configuration data.

• VM access
  

  • You do not need to allow any type of access to the VM because the VM can pull its own configuration from the Configuration drive.

References:

• metadata.json: https://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli-config-drive.html

• network_data.json: http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/liberty/implemented/metadata-service-network-info.html#rest-api-impact

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