NAME¶
cloud-localds - create a disk for cloud-init to utilize nocloud
SYNOPSIS¶
cloud-localds [options] output user-data [meta-data]
DESCRIPTION¶
cloud-localds creates a disk-image with user-data and/or meta-data for
cloud-init(1). user-data can contain everything which is supported by
cloud-init(1)
OPTIONS¶
- -d, --disk_format=DISKFORMAT
- Disk format to output. See qemu-img(1) for allowed disk formats.
Default is raw.
- -f, --filesystem=FORMAT
- Filesystem format. Allowed formats are vfat and iso. Default is iso9660.
- -h, --help
- Show usage.
- -i, --interfaces
- Write network interfaces file into metadata.
- -m, --dsmode=MODE
- Add dsmode to the metadata. Allowed are local or net. Default in
cloud-init(1) is net.
EXAMPLES¶
This example creates a disk image with user-data which can be used to start a
cloud image which supports cloud-init(1).
- Create some user-data:
cat > my-user-data <<EOF
password: passw0rd
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
EOF
- Create the disk image which contains the user-data:
cloud-localds my-seed.img my-user-data
- Boot the cloud-image:
qemu -net nic -net user -hda cloud-image.img -hdb my-seed.img -m 512
cloud-image.img is a image which supports cloud-init(1)
during the boot process.
AUTHOR¶
This manpage was written by Thomas Bechtold <thomasbechtold@jpberlin.de>
for Debian systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy,
distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General
Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.
