Salt Cloud - Add Proxy to VM

[Batgranny]

I've been attempting to privision a Ubuntu VM using salt cloud in and environment that accesses the Internet via a proxy.  I see that when provisioning the server the minion installation hangs because the machine can't access the internet:

 *  INFO: Installing minion

 *  INFO: Found function install_ubuntu_stable_deps

 *  INFO: Found function config_salt

 *  INFO: Found function install_ubuntu_stable

 *  INFO: Found function install_ubuntu_restart_daemons

 *  INFO: Found function daemons_running

 *  INFO: Found function install_ubuntu_check_services

 *  INFO: Running install_ubuntu_stable_deps()

Err:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease

  Cannot initiate the connection to us.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (2001:67c:1562::19). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2001:67c:1562::19 80]

I'm wondering is there a method to pass a proxy to the VM via salt so that the provisioning can complete?  I have tried using preflight_cmds to echo the proxy address to /etc/apt/apt.conf but I see a permission denied error.  Alternatively, if there is a method to allow me to gain root permissions so that I can add the proxy information via preflight_cmds or a file push that would be great.

[Batgranny]

I was able to resolve this by adding the proxy URL in the _HTTP_PROXY variable in bootstrap-salt.sh:

old: _HTTP_PROXY=""

new: _HTTP_PROXY"myproxyurl"

[Diego Barrantes]

Thanks for posting the solution even thou no one answered.

I guess you are missing a = after the _HTTP_PROXY ?

[Batgranny]

Yes, sorry, that should be:

old: _HTTP_PROXY=""

new: _HTTP_PROXY="myproxyurl"