SYNOPSIS
cloud-localds [options] output user-data [meta-data]
DESCRIPTION
cloud-localds creates a disk-image with user-data and/or meta-data for cloud-init(1). user-data can contain everything which is supported by cloud-init(1)OPTIONS
- -d, --disk_format=DISKFORMAT
-
Disk format to output. See
qemu-img(1)
for allowed disk formats.
Default is raw.
- -f, --filesystem=FORMAT
-
Filesystem format. Allowed formats are vfat and iso.
Default is iso9660.
- -h, --help
-
Show usage.
- -i, --interfaces
-
Write network interfaces file into metadata.
- -m, --dsmode=MODE
-
Add dsmode to the metadata. Allowed are local or net.
Default in
cloud-init(1)
is net.
EXAMPLES
This example creates a disk image with user-data which can be used to start a cloud image which supports cloud-init(1).
- Create some user-data:
- cat > my-user-data <<EOF password: passw0rd chpasswd: { expire: False } ssh_pwauth: True EOF
- Create the disk image which contains the user-data:
- cloud-localds my-seed.img my-user-data
- Boot the cloud-image:
- qemu -net nic -net user -hda cloud-image.img -hdb my-seed.img -m 512
cloud-image.img is a image which supports cloud-init(1) during the boot process.
AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Thomas Bechtold <[email protected]> for Debian systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.