Is it possible to build an all-snap image with an customized OS snap?

[Peng Liu]

Hi Mark,

Just would like to confirm, the cloud-init integration with "ubuntu-image"
is still an ongoing work? I tried to inject some commands to run in the
first boot of an image, but it did not work.
Thanks.

Peng


On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Peng Liu <pengliu.mail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Cloud-init sounds good fit for the requirement. Let me have a try first.
> Thanks a lot for your information!
>
> Peng
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2016 13:30, "Mark Shuttleworth" <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ah. It sounds like you want cloud-init, which runs on first boot and looks
> for guidance ("from the cloud" but which can also be a USB stick etc) on
> things like network configuration, user creation etc. We are busy
> integrating cloud-init so we can great Ubuntu Core images on the various
> public clouds, but the same mechanism would be useful in a device context.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 02/12/16 12:39, Peng Liu wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion! My requirement is to make console-conf execute
> automatically without user's evolvement. It can configure the network
> interfaces with default settings. After that users can use other interfaces
> (like web portal through LAN) to further configure the device (for example,
> upload public keys, config WAN interface, etc.). Is it possible to
> implement such kind of feature with gadget snap?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peng
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 6:12 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/12/16 18:38, Peng Liu wrote:
>> > I am wondering the possibility to build the image with a local
>> > customized OS snap. I have this question because I am working on an
>> > embedded device which has special requirements on the console-conf in
>> > the first boot.
>>
>> Would it be easier to express those requirements as config in the gadget
>> snap that shapes the behavior of console-conf?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
>
>
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