Cloud-config stops working if some XOA templating functionality is used

[Johnsel]

Hi,

I have spent a few hours trying to figure out why our config from 12 months ago stopped working. We left the project aside for a little while and have since updated XCP-ng and XOA. It looked like there were changes in either or both made that caused the inline cloud-config to stop executing.

After setting up a local lab installation of XCP-ng and XOA I was able to find out that latest XOA could not set cloud-config on XCP-ng at all, but updating to the latest XCP-ng fixes this issue. I found a thread (which I unfortunately can't find back now that I am writing this bug report) that said to remove the XOA based hostname template "hostname: {name}%" as a diagnostic/workaround action.

I set the hostname of our cloud-config to a static hostname and with all components fully updated (XCP-ng, XOA, terraform-provider-xenorchestra) it started running the cloud-config again. I suspect there were changes made to xo-server to accomodate something relating to XCP-ng core components and that these changes need to be applied in the terraform provider as well.

Sorry I can't be more specific. The whole xen/xcp-ng/xoa/terraform stack is pretty involved and I am not very familiar with it's logging/debug functionality. I also don't have admin on the target cluster, so it's hard for me to get logs without setting up a local lab again. Hopefully this is enough information to pinpoint the issue or to ask the relevant people upstream.

Best regards,

John Simons