Hello David, First I'd transform my script in base64 (cat script.sh | base64) then append that string into cloudmonkey similar to the below example:
deploy virtualmachine zoneid=8aadc947-d30e-4414-99f8-f8638df2eaf9 hypervisor=KVM rootdisksize=20 securitygroupids=241cbc66-a41b-476c-9d23-8dcc9489794e serviceofferingid=0d3e701e-a0e9-4f4e-99ac-cc0c479b4f47 startvm=true userdata=IyEvYmluL3NoCmVjaG8gbHVjaWFuID4gL2x1Y2lhbi50eHQK templateid=a1db134c-7211-4d08-9795-324af7982438 keypair=evenstar name=VM4 displayname=VM4 HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yacubovich, David" <dyacubov...@collegeboard.org> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Sunday, 28 February, 2016 03:13:05 > Subject: Re: User data is not base64 encoded > HI Simon, > No, I didn't try to use CloudMonkey yet, just trying to see how the user data > is > getting used. I did see the document you sent me already and does look like > straight forward think. Could I ask you to give an example of how you using > user-data, and how do you prepare it for the CloudMonkey? > > Thanks David > > From: Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com> > Sent: Feb 27, 2016 6:18 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: User data is not base64 encoded > > David, > > I can't speak to the GUI userdata, as I've never used it from the GUI. Have > you > tried using CloudMonkey? > > Here's some info related to userdata: > > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-administration/en/latest/virtual_machines.html#user-data-and-meta-data > > - Si > > > ________________________________________ > From: Yacubovich, David <dyacubov...@collegeboard.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:30 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: User data is not base64 encoded > > Hello All, > I am trying to test the use of userdata on CS 4.6. I am creating new instance > from the UI and I paste the base64 encoded string into the userdata box. But I > get this error every time. I can't find any examples of how to use userdata > online. Can someone please give me an example of how this should work? > > Here is m example: > > # echo "env: poclab > container: tomcat" | base64 > ZW52OiBwb2NsYWIKY29udGFpbmVyOiB0b21jYXQK > > And I paste this string into userdata box. > > Thanks, > David
