[CentOS] Update of cloud-init in CentOS 7 Extras

Fri Aug 4 15:41:36 UTC 2017
Pierre Riteau <priteau at uchicago.edu>

> On 13 Jul 2017, at 11:07, Pierre Riteau <priteau at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Jul 2017, at 01:55, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On 07/12/2017 02:02 PM, Pierre Riteau wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> The version of cloud-init packaged in CentOS 7 Extras is rather old (0.7.5, which was released in 2014). It is missing some functionality that we would like to use, as well as important bug fixes.
>>> Before I tackle rebuilding the package myself, I would like to know if there is a plan to update extras to a newer cloud-init version, or if has anyone has already updated cloud-init and would be happy to share the spec?
>>> 
>> 
>> I have just created a newer one for testing .. it is here:
>> 
>> 
>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-extras/cloud-init/20170705233059/0.7.9-3.el7.centos.x86_64/
>> 
>> See if that one works for you and provide us some feedback .. it is
>> version 0.7.9-3.el7.centos
>> 
>> Once we get some positive feedback and work out any bugs, this one will
>> get released.
> 
> Thanks a lot Johnny! We will test and report our findings :-)

We’ve tested this package and haven’t noticed any issue.

The functionality that we wanted from this new version (specifying uid for users created by cloud-init) works fine.

Pierre Riteau
Chameleon Lead DevOps Engineer