Comment 11 for bug 1746455

Hi Dave,

No problem - if you need help reproducing the issue I am available mid next
week, I can reproduce this in the CPE lab if required.

Cheers

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:44 PM, David Britton <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Calvin --
>
> We don't typically give ETAs on bug reports. Please ping me directly if
> you want more information.
>
> This issue is currently incomplete because we cannot reproduce due to an
> upstream issue in juju. We are working with that team to identify what
> the problem is to get a reproduction.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: cloud-init
> Status: Incomplete => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: cloud-init
> Assignee: Chad Smith (chad.smith) => David Britton (davidpbritton)
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746455
>
> Title:
> cloud-init vSphere cloud provider DHCP unique hostname issue
>
> Status in cloud-init:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> We've had an issue recently when provisioning workloads on vSphere.
> Here is what happens:
>
> 1) Set vSphere as the cloud provider in juju (bootstrap)
>
> 2) Deploy workload on vSphere, in our case, Canonical Kubernetes (CDK)
>
> 3) Machines are deployed using VMDK, but when they boot the initial
> hostname is Ubuntu (for all machines) until juju changes it during
> deployment.
>
> 4) DHCP gives each machine a lease, but the DNS entries are all messed
> up because of identical hostnames.
>
> 5) If the machines are rebooted they will receive the correct DNS
> entries. Note that juju will set the correct hostname eventually, but
> not when the initial DHCP lease is given to the host.
>
>
> Basically cloud-init is not giving newly provisioned machines on vSphere
> their correct hostname before the DHCP lease is given, meaning that every
> instance during DHCP has the hostname 'ubuntu' which messes up the entries
> on the DNS server.
>
> Related Bugs:
>
> * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1600766
> * https://github.com/juju-solutions/bundle-canonical-
> kubernetes/issues/480
> * https://github.com/juju-solutions/bundle-canonical-
> kubernetes/issues/171
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