I upgraded to Forman 1.23 and I’m trying to use Image-based provisioning. When I try to provision a new host using the “Image-Based” provisioning method and hit ‘Submit’, Foreman complains with this error:
Failed to create a compute vmware.example.org (VMware) instance stefantest1.example.org: ERF42-5701 [Foreman::Exception]: The user-data template must be a hash in YAML format for VM customization to work.
When I hit the Operating System > Provisioning Templates > Resolve button, it says:
Templates resolved for this operating system
Finish template Template Preseed default finish
The error “globalIPSettings are required when using Customization Spec” comes from vSphere itself-- it’s complaining that the template did not include the globalIPSettings parameter. There’s only one default template that includes this parameter, which is the UserData open-vm-tools template, so I used that.
The second error “The user-data template must be a hash in YAML format for VM customization to work.” was happening because the User Data template associated with my host, which was UserData default was not in YAML format. The UserData open-vm-tools template happens to be in YAML format, so that’s what I need.
Interestingly, when provisioning the host the UserData template never shows up when I hit the Resolve button, which is why I didn’t see it in the screenshot above. It does appear after the host is provisioned, however.
So, it seems that the User Data templates must be YAML, and vSphere expects a few parameters to be in the template.
In the screenshot above, I was seeing Preseed default finish because it’s associated with Ubuntu 18.04 Operating System. The host wasn’t picking up the UserData template until I created a special Host Group and associated the UserData open-vm-tools template to the new Host Group.
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I realized that I combined two errors in my original post. Apologies for creating confusion.
I’ve configured the OS (EL8) to use the CloudInit default and UserData open-vm-tools templates. When trying to deploy an image based on this template, I get hit with the following output:
Failed to create a compute vSphere (VMware) instance newvm.corp.net:
InvalidRequest: Required property ipAddress is missing from data object of type CustomizationFixedIp
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.customization.FixedIp at line 1, column 4895
while parsing property "ip" of static type CustomizationIpGenerator
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.customization.IPSettings at line 1, column 4851
while parsing property "adapter" of static type CustomizationIPSettings
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.customization.AdapterMapping at line 1, column 4797
while parsing property "nicSettingMap" of static type ArrayOfCustomizationAdapterMapping
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.customization.Specification at line 1, column 4325
while parsing property "customization" of static type CustomizationSpec
while parsing serialized DataObject of type vim.vm.CloneSpec at line 1, column 321
while parsing call information for method CloneVM_Task at line 1, column 177
while parsing SOAP body at line 1, column 167 while parsing SOAP envelope at line 1, column 0
while parsing HTTP request for method clone on object of type vim.VirtualMachine at line 1, column 0
Only thing I can think of at this point is that the subnet used for this infra uses DHCP rather than static for its “Boot Mode”, would this be the cause?
