cloud-init for alpine on proxmox

alpine-cloud-init.md

Enable cloud-init for a Alpine VM on proxmox

alpine version 3.17.4 cloud-init version 22.4

Install

Download alpine-virt-3.17.4-x86_64.iso Uploda to PVE Create a VM Boot From ISO

Script

SWAP_SIZE=0 setup-alpine

keyboard: us
variant: us
hostname: alpine
interface: eth0
ip: dhcp
timezone: Asia/Shanghai
proxy: none
mirrors: 51
network: DHCP

reboot

Configure

• add cloud-init device
• enable qemu guest agent
• remove iso device

Start

apk add vim 

vim /etc/apk/repositories

apk add cloud-init qemu-guest-agent e2fsprogs-extra ca-certificates
echo iso9660 > /etc/modules-load.d/iso9660.conf
wget "" -o /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

cd /etc/profile.d
mv color_promot.sh.disable color_promot.sh


rc-update add qemu-guest-agent boot
setup-cloud-init

## Tweak

cloud-init status -l
cloud-init clean --logs 
cloud-init query userdata
poweroff

cloud.cfg

# The top level settings are used as module
# and base configuration.
# A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
# when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
# from the distro configuration specified below
users:
   - default


# If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
# will get a message to login instead as the default $user
disable_root: false

mount_default_fields: [~, ~, 'auto', 'defaults,nofail', '0', '2']
resize_rootfs_tmp: /dev
ssh_pwauth:   false

# This will cause the set+update hostname module to not operate (if true)
preserve_hostname: false

# If you use datasource_list array, keep array items in a single line.
# If you use multi line array, ds-identify script won't read array items.
# Example datasource config
# datasource:
#    Ec2:
#      metadata_urls: [ 'blah.com' ]
#      timeout: 5 # (defaults to 50 seconds)
#      max_wait: 10 # (defaults to 120 seconds)
datasource_list: ['NoCloud']
runcmd:
  - hostname | figlet > /etc/motd


# The modules that run in the 'init' stage
cloud_init_modules:
 - migrator
 - seed_random
 - bootcmd
 - write-files
 - growpart
 - resizefs
 - disk_setup
 - mounts
 - set_hostname
 - update_hostname
 - update_etc_hosts
 - resolv_conf
 - ca-certs
 - rsyslog
 - users-groups
 - ssh

# The modules that run in the 'config' stage
cloud_config_modules:
 - locale
 - set-passwords
 - apk-configure
 - ntp
 - timezone
 - disable-ec2-metadata
 - runcmd

# The modules that run in the 'final' stage
cloud_final_modules:
 - package-update-upgrade-install
 - write-files-deferred
 - puppet
 - chef
 - ansible
 - mcollective
 - salt-minion
 - rightscale_userdata
 - scripts-vendor
 - scripts-per-once
 - scripts-per-boot
 - scripts-per-instance
 - scripts-user
 - ssh-authkey-fingerprints
 - keys-to-console
 - install-hotplug
 - phone-home
 - final-message
 - power-state-change

# System and/or distro specific settings
# (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
system_info:
   # This will affect which distro class gets used
   distro: alpine
   # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
   default_user:
     name: root
     lock_passwd: False
     shell: /bin/ash
   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
   paths:
      cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
      templates_dir: /etc/cloud/templates/
   ssh_svcname: sshd

disable-ipv6.conf

 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1

If anyone else is wondering what they're supposed to do in /etc/apk/repositories:
You need to uncomment the community repo