Not sure if it's considered best practice, but the ipa-join command takes a `--hostname` option, and you can provide a separate hostname there from what is set on the server I believe. I do not think it will change what hostname is set on the instance.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM Navid Talesh via FreeIPA-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Our OpenStack server names are all non-FQDN, for example: > compute01 > > However, when joining FreeIPA, the hostname must be in FQDN format. > Now, when converting to FQDN, our OpenStack structure gets disrupted. > And without FQDN, it is not possible to join FreeIPA. > > Is there a way to join the server to FreeIPA without changing the hostname? > > Sent from my phone > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Rob Crittenden <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 16:31 > To: FreeIPA users list <[email protected]> > Cc: Navid Talesh <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Freeipa problem > > Navid Talesh via FreeIPA-users wrote: > Hi > I'm installing FreeIPA and > I've encountered a problem. I hope you can > guide me. > I've a private > cloud with 3 controllers and 6 compute nodes, and now I > want to install > FreeIPA to manage my users. > However, when I installed FreeIPA and tried > to add my cloud servers to > it, I had to change the hostnames of the > servers. This change also > modified the hypervisor names inside OpenStack, > which broke my cloud. > Now I want to know if there is a way to join the > servers to FreeIPA > without changing their hostnames. What led you to > changing the OSP hostnames? If joining to IPA failed, how did it fail? rob > > -- > _______________________________________________ > FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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