Comment 16 for bug 1746455

Hi Ashley,

Version 6.5.X was used for this deployment. What are you using to provide
DHCP and DNS for your guest host?

Cheers,

- Calvin

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Ashley Lai <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I just ran the CDK on vsphere and can't reproduce the issue.
>
> juju version: 2.3.3-xenial-amd64
> VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-build-3620759
>
> @Calvin what version of ESXi are you running?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746455
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> Title:
> cloud-init vSphere cloud provider DHCP unique hostname issue
>
> Status in cloud-init:
> Incomplete
>
> 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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