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# vspherea
adamant-kite-43734
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late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 4:36 AMIf you mean build a whole new cluster with Rancher talking to vSphere API then yes, but I used the Ubuntu cloud image instead of building my own from scratch. There's a bug in the Ubuntu OVA cloud image though where it doesn't expose the network config for cloud-init. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/2018225
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flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 4:42 AMSo I used an Ubuntu server iso, and the issue I ran into was that the /etc/hosts file was truncated and never updated. Once I updated it to what the working cloudimg I used it works fine
flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 4:42 AM22.04 Ubuntu cloudimg worked fine, so I just used the same /etc/hosts file in the server one and rancher shows it green
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late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 4:44 AMwas the hostname set correctly?
late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 4:48 AMnote that I have since then shut down my vSphere cluster and am now running Proxmox so I can't reproduce my previous work currently.
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flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 4:54 AMWdym set correctly? How can I verify that or what should I be looking for?
flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 4:55 AMI follows this guide which was correct except for thr /etc/hosts being empty
flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 4:55 AMOnce I set it to what Ubuntu-cloudimg had it works fine
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late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 4:59 AMSo when you log in to fix the hosts file, what do you get if you type in "hostname"? Ie do you get "localhost" or do you get a node name that shows up in the rancher ui?
late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 5:00 AMBecause if you are getting "localhost" as the host name of the new VM then cloud-init isn't processing the network config properly coming from Rancher
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flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 5:03 AMOh interesting
flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 5:04 AMSo what would be the solution if I do get localhost?
flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 5:04 AMI’m not in front of my server right now
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late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 5:12 AMWell if Rancher recognizes the vm after you manually fix the hosts file then I suspect that "some" of the cloud-init data is getting processed properly so it's hopefully just a matter of adding the network-config property to the template definition.
It's hard to say for certain though without seeing it all. I will say that when I was working on that it was a fairly painful process to get everything working smoothly, the documentation I tried to follow online didn't mention everything.
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flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 5:13 AMYes there are holes. Glad I’m not the only one who’s run into this!
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late-lunch-73194
11/17/2023, 5:13 AMGood luck!
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flat-table-34962
11/17/2023, 5:23 AMThanks!
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