Server autoinstall: How to customise storage section?

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First time through I went through manual install. Then you will find /var/log/installer has yaml files that can be used as a template for the actual autoinstall.yaml that you want. This is what I then constructed to replace Debian installer preseed with aoutinstall.

  storage:
    config:
    - grub_device: true
      id: disk-sda
      path: /dev/sda
      ptable: gpt
      type: disk
      wipe: superblock-recursive
    - device: disk-sda
      flag: bios_grub
      id: partition-0
      number: 1
      size: 1048576
      type: partition
    - device: disk-sda
      id: partition-1
      number: 2
      size: -1
      type: partition
      wipe: superblock
    - fstype: ext4
      id: format-0
      type: format
      volume: partition-1
    - device: format-0
      id: mount-0
      path: /
      type: mount
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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • zarej
    zarej over 1 year

    By following instructionf from here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/AutomatedServerInstalls#Running_a_truly_automatic_autoinstall When I use for storage:

    storage:
      layout:
        name: lvm
    

    It creates root parttition with 4GB and doesn't create swap. When I use direct layout

    storage:
      layout:
        name: direct
    

    It creates root partition with full space available on disk and also creates swap. Is there any way to see how it is configured layout direct and modify that configuration to adjust my needs? I mean with action based config like is documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/AutomatedServerInstalls/ConfigReference#storage

    I mean something like following:

    storage:
      grub:
        install_devices:
          - esp-partition   
      swap:
        filename: swap.img
        size: 4GB
      config:
        - type: disk
          id: disk0
          ptable: gpt
          wipe: superblock
          grub_device: true
          match:
            size: largest
    
        - id: esp-partition # create partitions on disk (like sda1)
          type: partition
          device: disk0
          size: 512MB
          flag: boot # EFI system partition needs boot flag
        - type: partition
          id: boot-partition
          device: disk0
          size: 1GB
        - type: partition
          device: disk0
          id: root-partition
          size: -1
    
        - id: esp-partition-fs # format partitions on disk
          type: format
          volume: esp-partition
          fstype: fat32
          label: ESP
        - id: boot-partition-fs
          type: format
          fstype: ext4
          volume: boot-partition
        - id: root-partition-fs
          type: format
          fstype: ext4
          volume: root-partition
    
        - id: esp-partition-fs-mount # mount partitions
          type: mount
          device: esp-partition-fs
          path: /boot/efi
        - id: root-partition-fs-mount
          type: mount
          path: /
          device: root-partition-fs
        - id: boot-partition-fs-mount
          type: mount
          path: /boot
          device: boot-partition-fs
    

    Above configuration SUCCESS pass FileSystem step but FAIL on initramfs step of cloud-init configuration. Like on screenshot enter image description here I would like to know storage configuration for direct layout so I can adjust my configuration above, or if someone know to help me how to fix above configuration so step initramfs pass?