how I got cloud-init with cirros to work

[dvo...@redhat.com]

hey,

I was having trouble getting the 'nocloud' cloud-init data source working with cirros because the meta-data was not json parsable.  Here's a working example now.

1. Create user and meta data

cat << END > meta-data

{

"instance-id": "atomic-host001",

"local-hostname": "atomic01.example.org"

}

END

cat << END > user-data

#cloud-config

password: atomic

ssh_pwauth: True

chpasswd: { expire: False }

END

2. generate an iso with those two files

genisoimage -output cirros_nocloud.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data

3. attach that iso as a raw block device on the vm

After I formatted meta-data to be json, it all worked