I used Packer to create my own version of an Ubuntu Pro instance. When it comes up, it's not associated with a subscription (based on the output of ua status) and the log reports a crash, with foo and bar below replaced with identifiers:
2020-03-16 04:12:37,179 - cli.py:(594) [ERROR]: This machine is already attached to 'foo'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uaclient/cli.py", line 576, in wrapper
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uaclient/cli.py", line 616, in main
return args.action(args, cfg)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/uaclient/cli.py", line 88, in new_f
raise exceptions.AlreadyAttachedError(cfg)
uaclient.exceptions.AlreadyAttachedError: <uaclient.config.UAConfig object at 0xbar>
UPDATE: The packer copy preserves product codes:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-29-146:~$ curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document
[...]
"marketplaceProductCodes" : [ "ex9l8qw4x21426rsfg7am8gym" ],
[...]
}
So the net is we need to be able to reprovision keys transparently when the instance ID has changed.
Actually, the packer copy does seem to preserve product codes:
ubuntu@
[...]
"marketplaceP
[...]
}
So we have two bugs; I'll file the other one if we don't have one yet.