Bug 2239040

Summary:	[DDF] Is it really a good idea to wipe out the whole cloud-init cloud.cfg just to change/add these options?
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Direct Docs Feedback <ddf-bot>
Component:	Compute Resources - VMWare	Assignee:	Zuzana Lena Ansorgova <zuansorg>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Version:	6.11.0	CC:	chrobert, gtalreja, lstejska, mhulan, mmudra, nalfassi, zuansorg
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Description Direct Docs Feedback 2023-09-14 22:19:59 UTC

Is it really a good idea to wipe out the whole cloud-init cloud.cfg just to change/add these options?

Reported by: kaerka.phillips

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.11/html/provisioning_hosts/provisioning_virtual_machines_in_vmware_provisioning#annotations:c2d9d369-19f5-4d6b-ba22-8cb364367f97

Comment 2 Marie Hornickova 2023-09-15 10:38:18 UTC

Hello,
Many thanks for your feedback.
The documentation team will share information about the progress on its implementation in this ticket.
Thank you!

Comment 4 Leos Stejskal 2023-10-09 08:44:44 UTC

> Any ideas why it isn't a good idea?

Well, you override the original file without doing any backup. So you can break things.
Adding an optional step to create a backup of the file might be useful, 
but that's 101 of Linux configuration, you should do that no matter what.

So to answer the note: "No, it's not a good idea, unless you have a backup of the file."

Comment 5 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2024-02-20 14:09:20 UTC

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/2801

Comment 7 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2024-02-26 18:23:37 UTC

Published:

- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.14/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.13/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.12/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning