Overview
From March 1, 2018, the Linux public image provided by Tencent Cloud has the open-source tool Cloud-Init pre-installed, and all initialization operations on an instance are done via Cloud-Init, making operations inside the instance more transparent. For more information, see Cloud-Init and Cloudbase-Init.
In each launch, Cloud-Init generates a new /etc/hosts
file according to the /etc/cloud/templates/hosts.${os_type}.tmpl
template and overwrites the original /etc/hosts
file of the instance involved. Hence, after you manually modify the internal /etc/hosts
configuration of the instance and restart it, the /etc/hosts
configuration goes back to the original default configuration. Precautions
Tencent Cloud has fixed this problem for instances created by using a public image after September 2018, and the /etc/hosts
configuration will not be overwritten.
For instance created before September 2018, follow the steps below for modification.
Directions
Solution 1
1. Log in to the Linux CVM.
2. Execute the following command to change the - update_etc_hosts
in the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
configuration file to - ['update-etc-hosts', 'once-per-instance']
:
sed -i "/update_etc_hosts/c \\ - ['update_etc_hosts', 'once-per-instance']" /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
3. Execute the following command to create a config_update_etc_hosts
file under the /var/lib/cloud/instance/sem/
path:
touch /var/lib/cloud/instance/sem/config_update_etc_hosts
Solution 2
Note:
This solution takes the CentOS 7.2 operating system as an example.
Obtaining the hosts
template file path
1. Log in to the Linux CVM.
2. Execute the following command to view the system hosts
template file:
The hosts
template file is as shown in the following figure:
Modifying the hosts
template file
Note:
Taking adding 127.0.0.1 test test
as an example, you can modify the hosts
template and /etc/hosts
file as needed.
1. Execute the following command to modify the hosts
template file:
vim /etc/cloud/templates/hosts.redhat.tmpl
2. Press i to switch to the editing mode.
3. Add the following content to the end of the file:
4. Press Esc and enter :wq to save and close the file.
Modifying the /etc/hosts
file
1. Execute the following command to modify the /etc/hosts
file:
2. Press i to switch to the editing mode.
3. Add the following content to the end of the file:
4. Press Esc and enter :wq to save and close the file.
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