1. Download the cloud-init ZIP file and transfer the ZIP file to an AIX machine. The instruction below will use /tmp/CLOUD-INIT as the workspace for building the AIX cloud-init RPM package.

   • mkdir /tmp/CLOUD-INIT
   • cp cloud-init-0.7.5-master.zip /tmp/CLOUD-INIT
   • cd /tmp/CLOUD-INIT

2. Extract the cloud-init ZIP file

   • jar -xvf cloud-init-0.7.5-master.zip

3. Rename the folder from cloud-init-0.7.5-master to cloud-init-0.7.5

   • mv cloud-init-0.7.5 cloud-init-0.7.5

4. Add executable permission to executable files

   • chmod -Rf +x /tmp/CLOUD-INIT/cloud-init-0.7.5/tools
   • chmod -Rf +x /tmp/CLOUD-INIT/cloud-init-0.7.5/bin

5. Copy the spec file from cloud-init to the RPM build packages path

   • cp /tmp/CLOUD-INIT/cloud-init-0.7.5/packages/aix/cloud-init.spec.in /opt/freeware/src/packages/SPECS/cloud-init.spec

6. tar and gzip the cloudinit file so that RPM can build it

   • tar -cvf cloud-init-0.7.5.tar cloud-init-0.7.5
   • gzip cloud-init-0.7.5.tar

7. Copy the cloudinit gzip file to the RPM directory to be built

   • cp cloud-init-0.7.5.tar.gz /opt/freeware/src/packages/SOURCES/cloud-init-0.7.5.tar.gz

8. Build the cloudinit RPM

   • rpm -v -bb /opt/freeware/src/packages/SPECS/cloud-init.spec

9. Install the cloud-init RPM package.

   • rpm -ivh /opt/freeware/src/packages/RPMS/ppc/cloud-init-0.7.5-4.1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

The following RPM packages are needed to install python and cloud-init on AIX. The RPM packages can be obtained from the following website: http://www.bullfreeware.com/

The following packages are listed in the order it was installed.

Packages needed for installing python on AIX

Note:

• the RPM flag of --nodeps is needed for installing gettext-0.17-8.aix6.1.ppc.rpm

• bzip2-1.0.6-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• db-4.8.24-4.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• expat-2.1.0-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• gmp-5.1.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• libffi-3.0.11-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• openssl-1.0.1g-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• zlib-1.2.5-6.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• gettext-0.17-8.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• gdbm-1.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• libiconv-1.14-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• bash-4.2-9.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• info-5.0-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• readline-6.2-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• ncurses-5.9-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• sqlite-3.7.15.2-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-2.7.6-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• fdupes-1.51-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

• python-devel-2.7.6-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-xml-0.8.4-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-boto-2.34.0-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-argparse-1.2.1-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-cheetah-2.4.4-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-configobj-5.0.5-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-jsonpointer-1.0.c1ec3df-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-jsonpatch-1.8-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-oath-1.0.1-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-pyserial-2.7-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-prettytable-0.7.2-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-requests-2.4.3-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• libyaml-0.1.4-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-PyYAML-3.11-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
• python-six-1.3.0-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
• python-setuptools-0.9.8-2.aix6.1.noarch.rpm