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One other idea:
We simply do this by default for all cloud images, without a timeout - if no
cloud-init metadata is provided, you can log in to the hypervisor console
and see an autogenerated root password.
I like that. So just to make sure I understand what you mean here:
- No new boot menu item
- Whenever cloud-init fails to find a source, we generate an
expired root pw, disable ssh pwauth, and autologin
- Atomic Developer Mode is started by a user command (e.g.
a /usr/bin/atomic-devmode)
Is that correct?
One issue here is that cloud-init takes some time before realizing
that it has no source. It tries to connect to the default metadata
server address. It uses a 50s timeout it seems. We would probably
have to reduce this to something more sensible (5s? 10s?).