Validated yakkety and zesty discovered single OpenStack datasource: ref=yakkety-proposed $ lxc image export $ref . Output is in a....tar.gz $ imagefile=`ls -tr *gz | tail -n 1` $ mkdir $ref; cd $ref; tar -zxvf ../$imagefile; cd rootfs; tar zcvf /tmp/$ref.tar.gz *; $ openstack image create --disk-format raw --container-format bare --file /tmp/$ref.tar.gz bbsw/$ref.tar.gz ... | name | bbsw/yakkety-proposed.tar.gz | ... $ openstack server create --image bbsw/yakkety-proposed.tar.gz --flavor m1.tiny lxd-yakkety --user-data user-data.txt --key-name chad-smith ... | image | bbsw/zesty-proposed.tar.gz (97d35b90-ff04-478e-ae77-89c3b5c86a41) | | key_name | chad-smith | | name | lxd-zesty $ nova floating-ip-associate lxd-yakkety 10.245.162.112 $ ssh ubuntu@10.245.162.112 The authenticity of host '10.245.162.112 (10.245.162.112)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:IwlHdz1zqPh2m4fWOkSLxMm82GAFZ6KNzPo2fnHjM3g. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '10.245.162.112' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ". See "man sudo_root" for details. ### no warning ubuntu@lxd-yakkety:~$ grep VERSION= /etc/os-release VERSION="16.10 (Yakkety Yak)" ubuntu@lxd-yakkety:~$ dpkg -l cloud-init ii cloud-init 0.7.9-113-g513e99e0-0ub all Init scripts for cloud instances $ubuntu@lxd-yakkety:~$ sudo DEBUG_LEVEL=2 DI_LOG=stderr /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify --force 2>&1 | grep Found Found single datasource: OpenStack ----zesty ref=zesty-proposed $ lxc image export $ref . Output is in a....tar.gz $ imagefile=`ls -tr *gz | tail -n 1` $ mkdir $ref; cd $ref; tar -zxvf ../$imagefile; cd rootfs; tar zcvf /tmp/$ref.tar.gz *; $ openstack image create --disk-format raw --container-format bare --file /tmp/$ref.tar.gz bbsw/$ref.tar.gz ... | name | bbsw/zesty-proposed.tar.gz | ... $ openstack server create --image bbsw/zesty-proposed.tar.gz --flavor m1.tiny lxd-zesty --user-data user-data.txt --key-name chad-smith ... | image | bbsw/zesty-proposed.tar.gz (97d35b90-ff04-478e-ae77-89c3b5c86a41) | | key_name | chad-smith | | name | lxd-zesty $ nova floating-ip-associate lxd-zesty 10.245.162.145 $ ssh ubuntu@10.245.162.145 The authenticity of host '10.245.162.145 (10.245.162.145)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:IwlHdz1zqPh2m4fWOkSLxMm82GAFZ6KNzPo2fnHjM3g. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added '10.245.162.145' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ". See "man sudo_root" for details. ubuntu@lxd-zesty:~$ grep VERSION= /etc/os-release VERSION="17.04 (Zesty Zapus)" ubuntu@lxd-zesty:~$ dpkg -l cloud-init ii cloud-init 0.7.9-113-g513e99e0-0ub all Init scripts for cloud instances $ubuntu@lxd-zesty:~$ sudo DEBUG_LEVEL=2 DI_LOG=stderr /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify --force 2>&1 | grep Found Found single datasource: OpenStack