Excerpts from Susaant Kondapaneni's message of 2014-01-06 09:25:08 -0800: > Hi Steve, > > I am trying to understand the software config implementation. Can you > clarify the following: > > i. To use Software config and deploy in a template, instance resource MUST > always be accompanied by user_data. User_data should specify how to > bootstrap CM tool and signal it. Is that correct? > > ii. Supposing we were to use images which do not have cloud-init packaged > in them, (and a custom CM tool that won't require bootstrapping on the > instance itself), can we still use software config and deploy resources to > deploy software on such instances?
If you don't have cloud-init, you are entirely on your own. Heat requires cloud-init to be able to do anything beyond boot an instance with your specified parameters. > > iii. If ii. were possible who would signal the deployment resource to > indicate that the instance is ready for the deployment? > So what you'd end up with is userdata (in the nova/ec2/config-drive sense) in multi-part mime format that cloud-init expects. You can absolutely write your own tools to interpret that (please don't, cloud-init is lovely) and then submit results back using the API as defined. But... why? _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
