In private cloud datacenters, Abiquo supports guest setup with cloud init or hypervisor tools. In public cloud providers, Abiquo supports cloud init, and in AWS it also supports provider setup tools. Guest setup runs the first time you deploy a VM. The hypervisor tools guest setup also runs when you add a NIC. If the guest setup is not successful, the VM deploy or reconfigure will fail and roll back.
Guest setup in private cloud
For private cloud datacenters, the guest setup functionality is as follows.
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Set fully qualified domain name (FQDN) |
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Generate a random password at deploy and optionally send by email and/or SMS to owner |
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Inject network configuration if no DHCP server is available. |
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Inject SSH keys into guest. |
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Configuration drive with environment variables and user-data presented to guest OS on an ISO disk. |
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VM variables |
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Bootstrap script or cloud configuration |
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- For Windows with hypervisor tools use a custom specification instead of an unattend file. See Limitations of a custom specification to configure Windows
- See Configuration drive
Configure guest setup
To configure guest setup, see:
And for public cloud, see: