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Tip

To connect to your VM in public cloud, you must have your SSH public key in your user account. To add an SSH public key, see Edit Configure your user account details.

To configure a VM for first boot automation:

  1. Go to myCloud and edit a VM

  2. Go to General

  3. Enter the VM Name. Some hypervisors require unique VM names, so the platform may rename your VM if the name already exists

  4. Optionally, before you deploy, enter a Fully qualified domain name (FQDN). If you don’t enter one, the platform may define one based on the configuration options

  5. In private cloud, VCD, AWS, and Azure, the platform will send you the initial password for your VM if the if the Guest initial password checkbox is selected

    VM General configuration for guest setupImage Modified

  6. Go to Variables. Optionally, enter or edit Keys and/or Values

    Configuration of VM variables for guest setupImage Modified

  7. If you are using Cloud-init or similar, you can enter a startup script or configuration. Go to Bootstrap script. Enter a configuration definition for cloud-init or another compatible script. It can use the VM Variables. The following example is adapted from: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/examples.html

    Configuration of bootstrap script for guest setupImage Modified

  8. Click Save

The platform saves the bootstrap script configuration and variables in the VM metadata.

Tip

You can also manage cloud-init metadata using the Abiquo API. See Manage virtual machine metadata via API

When you deploy the VM, the template's guest setup process will run and it will configure the VM according to your guest setup options and definition.

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