package: cloud-init severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-cl...@lists.debian.org
Hi Clint, On Freitag, 7. Dezember 2012, Clint Byrum wrote: > > The functionality I need can probably be done in ~100 lines of sh, plus I > > really couldnt figure out how to use cloud-init at all, so... here i go. > Perhaps I missed where the functionality you want isn't handled by > cloud-init? Actually, it seems I missed what cloud-init is useful for. (Also see #695326) So maybe add this to README.Debian, together with other pointers, how to use it such a cloud setup with user-data?! > The way to use it without EC2 or OpenStack is documented in > doc/sources/nocloud/README > > Basically, you put meta-data into > /var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/meta-data. This is described in > doc/examples/seed/. This file is where you set things like hostname and > install authorized_keys. > > Then to do further system configuration a cloud-config stanza goes in > /var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud/user-data > > The capabilities of cloud-config are best discovered in > doc/examples/cloud-config.txt Thanks, this was very useful. > This idea that "all I need is a 100 line shell script" makes sense if > your focus is narrow, but cloud-init has grown out of the idea that a > single generic interface for doing first-boot initialization of a clean > image is more useful than many many 100 line shell scripts. of course. cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org