[Bug 761847] [NEW] cloud-init does not work in eucalyptus SYSTEM or STATIC modes

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: cloud-init

from http://open.eucalyptus.com/wiki/EucalyptusNetworkConfiguration_v2.0

| If your system is configured using SYSTEM or STATIC networking modes,
| then retrieving data requires the IP (or hostname) and port number of the
| Eucalyptus Cloud Controller (CLC):
|
|  http://<IP or hostname of CLC>:8773/<specific meta-data information request>
|
| (We recommend that you set up a DNS entry for each cloud controller.
| This way you can configure your images to access the metadata service
| using a DNS name, thus avoiding the need to recreate pre-configured images
| in the event a specific IP address changes.)


cloud-init could/should try a well-known hostname in addition to the well
known hostname in addition to the well known IP address '169.254.169.254'
to support this.  

on EC2, Amazon provides 'instance-data' hostname:
$ host instance-data
instance-data.compute-1.internal has address 169.254.169.254

So that might be a good idea to use that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cloud-init 0.6.1-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.38-8.42-virtual 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-virtual i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 15 14:58:05 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty uec-images

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Title:
  cloud-init does not work in eucalyptus SYSTEM or STATIC modes