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  1. OpenShift Cloud
  2. OCPCLOUD-1533

Support handling of userDataSecret for GCP Windows MachineSets

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    • MAPI GCP Windows Support
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    • Green
    • To Do
    • OCPSTRAT-265 - Support Windows Containers on GCP
    • Impediment
    • OCPSTRAT-265Support Windows Containers on GCP
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    • CLOUD Sprint 219

    Description

      User Story

      As a user I want like the the content present in the userDataSecret field of a GCP MachineSet to be processed during the initial boot up of a GCP Windows VM to allow for setup required by the Windows Machine Config Operator.

      Background

      The Windows Machine Config Operator uses the content in userDataSecret to setup the Windows VM on first boot. For this to happen in GCE, the contents have to be placed in a special metadata key sysprep-specialize-script-ps1

      Steps

      • Figure out a way to detect the given VM is using Windows as a OS in the GCE provider code
      • For Windows VMs, update perform the steps described in the background section

      Open Questions

      • By defaulting to using sysprep-specialize-script-ps1 we are mandating to using PowerShell in the userDataSecret. We could attempt to detect PowerShell vs Batch by inspecting userDataSecret. Alternatively we can document this and that should be sufficient as the Windows user data secret is owned and controlled by WMCO. Any changes to it will be stomped.
      • The format of Windows user data is now different across clouds. AWS and Azure requires the PowerShell commands to be placed between <powershell>Foo</powershell> where as this is not needed for GCP. Does this knowledge live with the client/caller or within the Machine API providers? IOW should MachineAPI mandate a format for it's clients and internally handles the cloud specific format?

      Stakeholders

      • The Windows Containers team

      Definition of Done

      • A Windows MachineSet results in a Windows Machine(s) where the steps listed in the userDataSecret are executed during initial boot.

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              mimccune@redhat.com Michael McCune
              paravindh Aravindh Puthiyaparambil
              Huali Liu Huali Liu
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