Vishvananda Ishaya wrote: > As I mentioned before user_data is provided via the metadata server on > 169.254.169.254. It is the responsibility of the guest to hit > 169.254.169.254/latest/user-data/ to retrieve the info set in user data.
As an example, Ubuntu's cloud-init (used in Ubuntu's cloud images and reused by Amazon in its Linux AMIs) is a framework that queries 169.254.169.254 at boot-time and can do various things based on the contents retrieved (from running a script to fully customize the system): https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
