aports/testing/cloud-init

After the cloud-init package is installed you will need to run the
"setup-cloud-init" command to prepare the OS for cloud-init use.

This command will enable cloud-init's init.d services so that they are run
upon future boots/reboots. It also enables eudev's init.d services as udev is
used by cloud-init for both disk configuration and network card persistent
naming.


NTP
---

It is recommended that you enable a NTP client on the machine. Cloud-init
supports both Chrony (fully featured) and Busybox's NTP client (a minimal
implementation).

Chrony is the default NTP client in cloud-init for Alpine Linux.


To use Chrony as the NTP client:

  Install the chrony package and enable the chrony init.d service

    # apk add chrony
    # rc-update add chronyd default

  Specify a ntp section in your cloud-init User Data like so:

    ntp:
      pool:
        - 0.uk.pool.ntp.org
        - 1.uk.pool.ntp.org

  If you do not specify any pool or servers then 0.pool.ntp.org ->
  3.pool.ntp.org will be used.

  The file /etc/cloud/templates/chrony.conf.alpine.tmpl is used by cloud-init
  as a template to create the configuration file /etc/chrony/chrony.conf.


To use Busybox as the NTP client:


  Edit the /etc/conf.d/ntpd file and change the line:

    NTPD_OPTS="-N -p pool.ntp.org"

  so that it is instead:

    NTPD_OPTS="-N"

  This changes the NTP client from using the hardcoded NTP server
  "pool.ntp.org" to instead use the /etc/ntp.conf file which will be
  generated by cloud-init upon first boot.

  Enable the ntp init.d service:

    # rc-update add ntpd default

  Specify a ntp section in your cloud-init User Data like so:

    ntp:
      ntp_client: ntp
      servers:
        - 192.168.0.1
        - 192.168.0.2

  If you do not specify any servers then 0.pool.ntp.org -> 3.pool.ntp.org
  will be used.

  The file /etc/cloud/templates/ntp.conf.alpine.tmpl is used by cloud-init
  as a template to create the configuration file /etc/ntp.conf.



Known Issues
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cc_ca_certs module
------------------

The remove-defaults option of the cloud-init cc_ca_certs module does not
currently work correctly. This option will delete certificates installed by
the Alpine ca-certificates package as expected. However the certificates
provided by the ca-certificates-bundle package, which is always automatically
installed in an Alpine system due to it being a dependancy of a base package,
are not deleted.