create new groups with cloud-config

[AoiK]

Hello,
Is there any way to create a new user by adding it to a new group that is not named after the user name with cloud-config?
I've read this reference and tried "groups" section in my cloud-config, but I got message like warning: unrecognized key "groups" and group was not created.

my cloud config looks like below :
groups:
  - foo

users:
  - name: aoi
    primary-group:foo # this is a creation-time field. will be ignored if account exists
    groups:
      - sudo
      - core

I'm currently using CoreOS607.0.0.
I'm also wondering how I can specify uid and gid when creating new ones with cloud-config.

Of course I could add them by commands manually but what I'm trying to do it to keep everything in cloud-config so that I can distribute the same configuration to the machines on the different platforms.

[Brandon Philips]

Hello AoiK-

Our cloudinit does not implement this feature. If you would like to
file an issue to have this feature added you can do it over here:
https://github.com/coreos/coreos-cloudinit

You can sort of hack around this limitation by having a oneshot unit
that runs a script to add the groups.

The full documentation of the features in the CoreOS cloudinit is
here: https://coreos.com/docs/cluster-management/setup/cloudinit-cloud-config/

Thanks,

Brandon

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[ChandanC]

Hi Brandon,

Has there been any update on this topic, for adding support for creating new groups and add support to provide UID and GID for the new user and group created. I could not find any update or see any issue logged in the Github link you had provided and no way to log one either.

Thanks
Chandan

[david....@coreos.com]

Hi,

I don't believe cloud-config is getting new features anymore.  Ignition, which is recommended over cloud-config, supports what you are requesting.  See the "passwd" section here:

https://coreos.com/ignition/docs/latest/configuration.html

Thanks.

David

[ChandanC]

Hi David,

Thanks for the update.