Hello
I am trying to define the hostname of a ubuntu 18.04 template during the templating process. I have tried multiple different posibilities and it just does not set the defined hostname.
This is the base of my packer config:
{
"builders": [
{
"CPU_hot_plug": true,
"CPUs": 2,
"NestedHV": true,
"RAM": 4096,
"RAM_hot_plug": true,
"RAM_reserve_all": true,
"boot_wait": "5s",
"boot_command": [
"<enter><wait><f6><wait><esc><wait>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs>",
"/install/vmlinuz",
" initrd=/install/initrd.gz",
" priority=critical",
" locale=en_US",
" preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg",
"<enter>"
],
"boot_order": "disk,cdrom",
"cluster": "{{ user `vsphere_cluster` }}",
"communicator": "ssh",
"convert_to_template": true,
"create_snapshot": true,
"datacenter": "{{ user `vsphere_datacenter` }}",
"datastore": "{{ user `vsphere_datastore` }}",
"disk_controller_type": "pvscsi",
"folder": "{{ user `vsphere_folder` }}",
"guest_os_type": "ubuntu64Guest",
"http_directory": "http",
"insecure_connection": "true",
"iso_checksum": "sha256:8c5fc24894394035402f66f3824beb7234b757dd2b5531379cb310cedfdf0996",
"iso_urls": "http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/18.04.5/release/ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso",
"network_adapters": [
{
"network": "{{ user `vsphere_network` }}",
"network_card": "vmxnet3"
}
],
"password": "{{ user `vsphere_password` }}",
"resource_pool": "{{ user `vsphere_resource_pool` }}",
"ssh_password": "packer",
"ssh_timeout": "300m",
"ssh_username": "packer",
"storage": [
{
"disk_size": 51200,
"disk_thin_provisioned": true
}
],
"configuration_parameters": {
"disk.EnableUUID": "TRUE"
} ,
"type": "vsphere-iso",
"username": "{{ user `vsphere_username` }}",
"vcenter_server": "{{ user `vsphere_server` }}",
"vm_name": "{{ user `vm_name` }}"
}
],
"provisioners": [
....
],
"sensitive-variables": [
...
],
"variables": {
....
}
}
My preseed.cfg:
# localization
d-i debian-installer/country string US
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8
# user configuration
d-i passwd/user-fullname string packer
d-i passwd/username string packer
d-i passwd/user-password password packer
d-i passwd/user-password-again password packer
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
# partition configuration
d-i partman-auto/method string lvm
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-lvm/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
# password configuration
d-i passwd/root-login boolean false
d-i passwd/root-password password packer
d-i passwd/root-password-again password packer
# time configuration
d-i time/zone string Europe/London
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean true
d-i clock-setup/ntp-server string ntp.server.com
# software configuration
d-i pkgsel/include string open-vm-tools openssh-server cloud-init
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
# sudoers configuration
d-i preseed/late_command string \
echo 'packer ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' > /target/etc/sudoers.d/packer ; \
in-target chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/packer ;
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
These are the things I have tried to define the hostname:
-
Add this in my
boot_command
netcfg/get_domain=local,
netcfg/get_hostname=ubuntu, -
Add this in my preseed.cfg:
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string ubuntu
d-i netcfg/get_domain string local -
Add this in my preseed.cfg:
d-i netcfg/hostname string ubuntu
No errors occur during the build process and the provisioners work as intended.
Any suggestions what I should try next?