As of v1.1.0, RancherOS automatically detects that it is running on VMware ESXi, and automatically adds the open-vm-tools service to be downloaded and started, and uses guestinfo keys to set the cloud-init data.
| VARIABLE | TYPE |
|---|---|
hostname |
hostname |
interface.<n>.name |
string |
interface.<n>.mac |
MAC address (is used to match the ethernet device’s MAC address, not to set it) |
interface.<n>.dhcp |
{“yes”, “no”} |
interface.<n>.role |
{“public”, “private”} |
interface.<n>.ip.<m>.address |
CIDR IP address |
interface.<n>.route.<l>.gateway |
IP address |
interface.<n>.route.<l>.destination |
CIDR IP address (not available yet) |
dns.server.<x> |
IP address |
dns.domain.<y> |
DNS search domain |
cloud-init.config.data |
string |
cloud-init.data.encoding |
{“”, “base64”, “gzip+base64”} |
cloud-init.config.url |
URL |
Note: “n”, “m”, “l”, “x” and “y” are 0-indexed, incrementing integers. The identifier for an interface (
<n>) is used in the generation of the default interface name in the formeth<n>.