In Ubuntu 12.10, the legacy 'user' cloud-config option is not handled properly

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This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1100920

Launchpad details

affected_projects = ['heat', 'cloud-init (Ubuntu)', 'cloud-init (Ubuntu Quantal)', 'cloud-init (Ubuntu Raring)']
assignee = None
assignee_name = None
date_closed = 2013-05-15T20:02:24.351926+00:00
date_created = 2013-01-17T19:26:26.199617+00:00
date_fix_committed = 2013-01-25T20:12:19.307231+00:00
date_fix_released = 2013-05-15T20:02:24.351926+00:00
id = 1100920
importance = medium
is_complete = True
lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1100920
milestone = None
owner = clint-fewbar
owner_name = Clint Byrum
private = False
status = fix_released
submitter = clint-fewbar
submitter_name = Clint Byrum
tags = ['patch']
duplicates = [1158906]

Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-17T19:26:26.199617+00:00

When trying to use HEAT with Ubuntu 12.10, the following cloud-config is used:

--------BEGIN------------
runcmd:

• setenforce 0 > /dev/null 2>&1 || true

user: ec2-user

cloud_config_modules:

• locale
• set_hostname
• ssh
• timezone
• update_etc_hosts
• update_hostname
• runcmd

Capture all subprocess output into a logfile

Useful for troubleshooting cloud-init issues

output: {all: '| tee -a /var/log/cloud-init-output.log'}
--------END-----------
This results in ec2-user being created, but no SSH keys for it.

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Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-17T19:37:02.857298+00:00

Linking to HEAT to document the problem. May need to work around broken version of cloud-init once it is understood fully.

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Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-18T23:10:46.081246+00:00

I'm closing the heat task. Heat is doing the right thing here, I think cloud-init was just doing the wrong one.

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Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-23T02:27:59.457705+00:00

Just FYI, the fix that is going into trunk requires some things to be present in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg. I'm not sure fixing this is worth a conffile update, so we might have to just leave this as a Won't Fix for quantal unless we do something clever, and clever usually leads to regressions.. :-P

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Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2013-01-31T14:19:24.333970+00:00

I'm pretty sure that the trunk commit "just works" when applied to quantal. I'm attaching a deb here and the patch that built it, mainly for future reference.

I would appreciate feedback as to whether or not it works though. The reason (i think) it "just works" without a config change as Clint suggested is that the distro class in quantal returned a dict for 'get_default_user' the same as trunk does. The difference is one just comes from code (quantal) and the other from config (raring/trunk).
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Launchpad attachments: debdiff for quantal

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Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2013-01-31T14:22:29.747062+00:00

Launchpad attachments: deb for quantal with above patch applied

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Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-01-31T17:02:27+00:00

Excerpts from Scott Moser's message of 2013-01-31 14:19:24 UTC:

I'm pretty sure that the trunk commit "just works" when applied to
quantal. I'm attaching a deb here and the patch that built it, mainly
for future reference.

I would appreciate feedback as to whether or not it works though. The reason (i think) it "just works" without a config change as Clint suggested is that the distro class in quantal returned a dict for 'get_default_user' the same as trunk does. The difference is one just comes from code (quantal) and the other from config (raring/trunk).
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You may be right, I don't think I actually tried the patch backported, I just tried trunk on quantal. So perhaps it is SRU'able.

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Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2013-03-12T16:15:08.299236+00:00

This change made it into 0.7.2~bzr795-0ubuntu1 but it is not listed in the changelog.

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Launchpad user Clint Byrum(clint-fewbar) wrote on 2013-05-07T16:10:14.173166+00:00

I can confirm that Ubuntu 13.04 images work fine with Heat now.

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Launchpad user Scott Moser(smoser) wrote on 2013-05-15T20:02:22.930074+00:00

fixed in 0.7.2

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Launchpad user Rolf Leggewie(r0lf) wrote on 2014-12-03T10:00:38.717794+00:00

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".