[LIBCLOUD-356] Provide user-data for Openstack driver

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.3
• Component/s: Compute
• Labels: cloud-init openstack userdata

Environment

Libcloud 0.13.0 against Openstack

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mattieu Puel
• Created: 02/Jul/13 20:30
• Updated: 17/May/15 15:57

Description

libcloud openstack's driver supports parameter "user-data" (namely ex_userdata) for providing user data to the instance. This is the equivalent to "nova boot --user-data" parameter.

With Openstack nova command, this results in providing the content of the pointed file. You may for instance provide a shell script, a configuration file for cloud-init...

Once the VM startups, cloud-init retrieves the file from the metadata server and uses it (executes it for shell scripts for instance).

The libcloud behaviour is different: it simply passes the parameter content as is.