Configuration driven from cloud-init style yaml files

[mudler]

/etc should be configured on boot driven by extensible cloud-init style yaml files.

Similarly, users can drop config files into the /oem ( or /usr/local/oem ) or /usr/local/setup folder to achieve persistent configurations. The cloud-init format should allow extensions too.

A default config should be among the lines of : https://github.com/rancher/k3os/blob/1688b718da51b39d48c17e2a20d453f37f3d58c7/overlay/libexec/k3os/boot

This issue is about finding a tool that accomplishes that, and embed it into the various stages of the OS (at least): initramfs, boot, network. Replacing also the current skel package that does handle /etc setup.

Ideally, the tool that mimic cloud-init shouldn't have dependency, and be portable (possibly written in Go) see for e.g.:

• https://github.com/rancher/k3os/tree/master/pkg
• https://github.com/coreos/ignition
• https://github.com/mudler/yip
• .. ?

See also https://github.com/mocaccinoOS/os-commons/tree/master/packages/systemd/yip-systemd for a possible integration with systemd boot

[mudler]

Closing this as we have a cloud-config mechanism, for the /oem setup, we will have a follow-up (in #24) as there is no decision yet if that has to be in the persistent area or not