Config drive support in VCD VIM connector

Initial support for config drive in VMware VCD VIM connector

Proposer

• Vanessa Little (VMware)
• Matt Harper (RIFT)
• Ravi Chamarty (RIFT)

Type

Feature*

Target MDG/TF

RO

Description

Many VNF vendors support processing of userdata/cloud-init in their VMs. VCD 9.x currently does not support explicit userdata injection. However, such a functionality can be implemented by implementing a config drive in the VCD VIM connector. In the first phase, we plan to support simple userdata and SSH keys. The following workflow is expected

• Generate cloud-init version 2 directory structure as per below reference https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/configdrive.html
• VIMconnector to generate ISO image
• Create image in VCD organization catalog
• VIMconnector to launch VM with additional disk based on above image

Demo or definition of done

Verify parsing of userdata using cirros and Ubuntu-16 VMs IP address generation and multi-disk based VMs are not supported in this phase.