set up locale keyboard ?

[poblin-orange]

Hello Friends,
currently testing kairos k8s os builder to generate ISO. Very nice experience so far.

Im not testing the ISO on my environnement (vsphere 7, booting on ISO, only console mode avaible wrt / network constraint).

Is there a way to configure the keyboard for my local (fr).
Maybe with cloud-init syntax ?

• https://kairos.io/docs/architecture/cloud-init/
  • https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html#keyboard
  • https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/examples.html#cloud-config-examples

...
apiVersion: build.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: OSArtifact
metadata:
  name: ubuntu-k3s-v2
spec:
  imageName: quay.io/kairos/core-ubuntu-22-lts-k3s:v1.25.2-k3s1_v1.2.3
  iso: true
  bundles:
  # Bundles available at: https://packages.kairos.io/Kairos/
  - quay.io/kairos/packages:helm-utils-3.10.1
  - quay.io/kairos/packages:k9s-utils-0.26.7
  cloudConfig: |
    #cloud-config
    hostname: k3s-{{ trunc 4 .MachineID }}
....    
    #set keyboard locale
    # Set keyboard layout to "us"
    keyboard:
      layout: fr
...

[Itxaka]

Bonjour!

If you are using a systemd-based derivative (All flavors except alpine) you should be able to use the systemd-firstboot key to set the keyboard https://github.com/mudler/yip#stagesstageidstepnsystemd_firstboot`

so for example you would set this in your config to have it run and set the keyboard:

stages:
  initramfs:
    - name: "Setup locale"
      systemd_firstboot:
        keymap: fr

For Ubuntu systems which dont have the systemd-firstboot service, a simple loadkeys in the boot stage to load the keymap should work:

stages:
  boot:
    - name:
      commands:
        - loadkeys fr

[Itxaka]

Confirmed, initramfs stage is the expected one, just checked this to set up my spanish keyboard :=)

[poblin-orange]

thks @ltxaka

[poblin-orange]

Merci @Itxaka :-)
Unfortunatly, i had no luck with initramfs. Still english. Im on quay.io/kairos/core-ubuntu-22-lts-k3s:v1.25.2-k3s1_v1.2.3, so i have systemd i guess.
Any reason to use the same instruction in other phases ? (say boot )

[Itxaka]

Umm, weird, can you show me your config yaml?

The one I tested was:

#cloud-config

install:
  auto: true
  reboot: true
  device: /dev/vda

stages:
   initramfs:
     - name: "Set user and password"
       users:
        kairos:
          passwd: "kairos"
       hostname: kairos-{{ trunc 4 .Random }}
     - name: "Setup locale"
       systemd_firstboot:
         keymap: es

And I got the correct spanish keyboard

[poblin-orange]

Here is my OsArtifact:

apiVersion: build.kairos.io/v1alpha1
kind: OSArtifact
metadata:
  name: ubuntu-22-lts
spec:
  imageName: quay.io/kairos/kairos-ubuntu-22-lts:v1.6.1-k3sv1.26.1-k3s1
  iso: true
  bundles:
  # Bundles available at: https://packages.kairos.io/Kairos/
  - quay.io/kairos/packages:helm-utils-3.10.1
  - quay.io/kairos/packages:k9s-utils-0.26.7

    #cloud-config
    hostname: k3s-{{ trunc 4 .MachineID }}
    users:
    - name: "kairos"
      passwd: "kairos"
    install:
      device: "auto"
      reboot: true
      poweroff: false
      auto: true # Required, for automated installations
     # install stages, yip definitions. https://github.com/mudler/yip
     # available stages https://kairos.io/docs/architecture/cloud-init/#boot-stages
    stages:
      initramfs:
        - name: "Setup locale"
          systemd_firstboot:
            keymap: fr

[Itxaka]

Weird, jsut tested this with my iso, and got the proper FR keyboard. Maybe its an ubuntu thing!

[Itxaka]

well crap, ubuntu just doesnt seem to have the systemd-firstboot service! No wonder it didnt work for you :D

[Itxaka]

Im expanding my first answer :D

[poblin-orange]

thks @Itxaka . Testing this evening

[codecrafter404]

For everyone finding this in the future, on alpine this works:

stages:
    boot:
        - name: Setup Keymap
          commands:
            - echo 'KEYMAP="/usr/share/bkeymaps/de/de.bmap.gz"' > /etc/conf.d/loadkmap && rc-service loadkmap restart

just look up your keymap in /usr/share/bkeymaps/ :)