[Openstack-operators] hostname on vms not correct until reboot

Abel Lopez alopgeek at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 22:27:48 UTC 2014


That screams of boot order.
It sounds like cloud-init needs to start sooner, like immediately after network initialization.
Are these home-grown images?

On Sep 10, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Abel,
> 
> It's actually correct when logging in, but some services, like mcollective are reporting the wrong fqdn until we reboot the VM so as a temporary fix we added a reboot at the end of cloud-init.
> 
> Any better way to get this sorted properly though?
> 
> Alex
> On 8 Sep 2014 16:20, "Abel Lopez" <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. I think this is similar to changing hostname on an interactive shell, you won't see your prompt change until you logout/in. Seems to be a new feature, maybe something in cloud-init 0.7.5? IIRC it used to be correct at first login. 
> 
> On Monday, September 8, 2014, Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI all, 
> 
> did anyone have the same problem ? 
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 3 September 2014 13:57, Alex Leonhardt <aleonhardt.py at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using openstack together with puppet and mcollective (VM images is pre-provisoined) but when a new VM is being spun up, it seems that the host is being wrongly identified as host-i-p-g-o-e-s-h-e-r-e instead of its actual hostname that was set by cloud-init / puppet ?
> 
> Am sure there is a trick to make this work properly ? 
> 
> Note that after I reboot the VM (no changes made) the host comes up with the correct name in mcollective. Am just wondering if there is something I forgot to set in cloud-init or if someone had the same issue and knows a proper fix (not rebooting) ? 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
> 

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