Hey! I’m currently working on integrating the new autoinstall method into Foreman. Thanks for providing the great tutorial @langesmalle!
I’m already deploying 20.04.3 hosts with custom userdata templates as suggested by @lzap. Now, I want to automate the whole integration & I see the following steps:
- Fix installation media such that it provides the correct kernel files (see here)
- In order to configure the network with cloud-init, a network identifier must be set. Previous templates didn’t need an explicit identifier and it would be generated during installation. So, the name wasn’t set in the provisioning template, but now it seems like it must be generated here
- AFAIK cloud-init and the corresponding
userdata/user-dataAPI endpoint is usually used for image-based deplyoment. When using image-based deployment instead of the regular host creation, we must use a different template. Therefore, we must differentiate between these two use cases.
What do you think about it @lzap? Idk whether my approach for the PR is feasible or whether it would be better to create the operating system type Ubuntu, since the different kernel file names to Debian may be seen as a major difference which justifies a new operating system class.