Hi Andreas, I've been doing a bit of work around userdata lately;
Assuming you've used something like Jason Hancock's blog to write the user-data to the virtual router (remember it HAS to be base64 encoded) Then you can run something like: USERDATA=`curl http://[Virtual_Router_IP]/latest/user-data` On the guest instance to retrieve it. The trickier parts are 1. Parsing the data to get what you want out of the single string (we've developed an xml-like structure for the string to make it multi-purpose) And 2. Getting the IP address of the virtual router you want in the first place - easy enough if you are using a single network, but much more complex if you have multiple networks and hence multiple Virtual Routers... Regards, Paul Angus S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447711418784 paul.an...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] Sent: 07 February 2013 14:38 To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Puppet user-data On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Fuchs, Andreas (SwissTXT) <andreas.fu...@swisstxt.ch> wrote: > Are there advantages or disadvantages of pulling userdate from the virtual > router compared the get things from the cloudstack API? > Which is the preffered way? > So I've seen others use group (which is queryable via the API) - but that puts CloudStack closer to an ENC, as you need to query CloudStack for the Group an instance is in, as opposed to using factor at catalog compilation time. I tend to think that makes groups a bit less flexible than user data. ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
