proposal: K8s Object Info via Cloud-Init Userdata

[akutz]

Please describe the solution you would like.

I would like to share the same Secret resource with Cloud-Init userdata between multiple VirtualMachine (VM) resources. While this is supported, there is no way for Cloud-Init to know anything about the VM being deployed, meaning any information unique to a given VM requires a unique Secret resource. This proposal describes injecting the Cloud-Init metadata VM Operator constructs with the VirtualMachine resource so Cloud-Init userdata can access it.

Please find a link to the proposal entitled K8s Object Info via Cloud-Init Userdata: One-Pager.

Is there anything else you would like to add?

NA

Please tell us about your environment.

	Value	How to Obtain
Supervisor version	NA	rpm -qa VMware-wcp on the vCenter appliance
Supervisor node image version	NA	rpm -qa VMware-wcpovf on the vCenter appliance
Kubernetes version	NA	kubectl version
VM Operator version	NA	kubectl -n vmware-system-vmop get pods \ -ojsonpath='{range .items[*].spec.containers[*]}{.image}{"\n"}{end}' | \ sort -u | \ grep vmop | \ awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | \ awk -F: '{print $2}'