[CentOS-devel] cloud-init for CentOS 6

Fri Oct 17 21:50:16 UTC 2014
Dusty Mabe <dustymabe at gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 08:31:02PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> Attached. Let me know if there are questions. I ran pylint against it which
> flagged some missing python packages. I installed the resulting package in
> a C6 image and did some very limited testing. Basically booting an instance
> and verifying that SSH injection works and the centos user is created and
> that no funny warnings/errors are spit out. What I noticed though is that
> the debug output doesn't go to the cloud-init log, don't know why that is.
> 

I noticed this too (see [1]). What I determined is that the complicated cloud-init 
logging set up in [2] doesn't default to putting the debug output in that log. As
shown by [1], if you are on a systemd based system (EL7,Fedora) you can still get 
the output.

Dusty

[1] - http://dustymabe.com/2014/09/08/capture-elusive-cloud-init-debug-output-with-journalctl/
[2] - http://dustymabe.com/content/2014-09-08/05_logging.cfg