[OmniOS-discuss] Omios, hvm and AWS

[Al Slater]

On 31/07/17 21:30, Eric Sproul wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Al Slater <al.slater at scluk.com> wrote:
>> One more question though, is there any way to enable an SMF service for
>> the next reboot, but not immediately.  Specifically, I want to enable
>> the initial-boot service with a .initialboot file in place, then create
>> a new AMI.
>>
>> I wist to use .initialboot to grab the instance configuration from
>> amazon (hostname, root keys etc) and configure appropriately when the
>> new instance starts.
> 
> Hi Al,
> The initial-boot service isn't really suitable for this sort of thing.
> You might want to check out
> pkg://omnios/system/management/ec2-credential which specifically
> handles setting up the credentials at first boot.  That could be
> trivially extended[1] to set the system hostname and probably any
> other "standard" thing that operators want.
> 
> Eric
> 
> [1] https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/master/build/ec2-credential/files/install-ec2-credential

Thanks for the pointer Eric.

-- 
Al Slater