NAME

       cloud-localds - create a disk for cloud-init to utilize nocloud

SYNOPSIS

       cloud-localds [options] output user-data [meta-data]

DESCRIPTION

       cloud-localds  creates  a  disk-image  with  user-data and/or meta-data for cloud-init(1).
       user-data can contain everything which is supported by cloud-init(1)

OPTIONS

       -d, --disk_format=DISKFORMAT
              Disk format to output. See qemu-img(1) for allowed disk formats.  Default is raw.

       -f, --filesystem=FORMAT
              Filesystem format. Allowed formats are vfat and iso.  Default is iso9660.

       -h, --help
              Show usage.

       -i, --interfaces
              Write network interfaces file into metadata.

       -m, --dsmode=MODE
              Add dsmode to the metadata. Allowed are local or net.  Default in cloud-init(1)  is
              net.

EXAMPLES

       This  example creates a disk image with user-data which can be used to start a cloud image
       which supports cloud-init(1).

       Create some user-data:

              cat > my-user-data <<EOF
              password: passw0rd
              chpasswd: { expire: False }
              ssh_pwauth: True
              EOF

       Create the disk image which contains the user-data:

              cloud-localds my-seed.img my-user-data

       Boot the cloud-image:

              qemu -net nic -net user -hda cloud-image.img -hdb my-seed.img -m 512

       cloud-image.img is a image which supports cloud-init(1) during the boot process.

SEE ALSO

       cloud-init(1), qemu-img(1), qemu(1)

AUTHOR

       This manpage was  written  by  Thomas  Bechtold  <thomasbechtold@jpberlin.de>  for  Debian
       systems  (but  may  be  used  by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or
       modify this document under the  terms  of  the  GNU  General  Public  License,  Version  3
       published by the Free Software Foundation.