Hi Tom,

wirelessduck--- via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I’m attempting to automate installing devuan VMs in VMware using
> hashicorp packer and/or terraform. The docs mention that they support
> preseed files and also cloud-init.
>
> https://www.packer.io/guides/automatic-operating-system-installs/preseed_ubuntu
>
> https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/provision-terraform-infrastructure-using-packer-and-cloud-init
>
> Is there good reasons to use one over the other for Devuan?
>
> It looks like preseed has more configurability over the end system,
> but cloud-init is faster using an existing container image?

Preseed is specific to the Debian/Devuan installer (and maybe other
Debian derivatives). cloud-init is meant to customize an already
installed virtual machine image, AFAIK.

> Is there somewhere I can find a list of all the preseed options for
> devuan installer? Or can I just refer to the Debian list at
> https://preseed.debian.net/debian-preseed/?
>
> Is cloud-init supported on Devuan?

On my daedalus machine

  $ apt search cloud-init
  Sorting... Done
  Full Text Search... Done
  cloud-init/testing 22.2-3.1 all
    initialization system for infrastructure cloud instances

  cloud-initramfs-dyn-netconf/unstable,testing 0.18.debian8 all
    write a network interface file in /run for BOOTIF

  cloud-initramfs-growroot/unstable,testing 0.18.debian8 all
    automatically resize the root partition on first boot

  cloud-initramfs-rescuevol/unstable,testing 0.18.debian8 all
    boot off a rescue volume rather than root filesystem

> Are there any other tools I should be using instead of preseed or
> cloud-init?

Not that I'm aware of.

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen