Hi all, I'm going put these scripts into repository/conf and the "customization" script will be under a specific shell_type directory.
The name "customization" will be a constant. For example, for "sh" repository/conf/scripts/*sh*/*customization* On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > An update on my effort: > > I was trying to get the customization script working on vCloud and it was > not working. > > I just figured out the issue. > > The script on Ubuntu is invoked via "sh" and I was trying the following > sample script to test. > > #!/bin/bash > echo $1 > mkdir /root/isurutest > if [ x$1 == x"precustomization" ]; then > echo "Do Precustomization tasks " `date` > pretasks > elif [ x$1 == x"postcustomization" ]; then > echo "Do Postcustomization tasks " `date` > posttasks > fi > > So this script gives an error. > > precustomization > /root/.customization/customize.sh: 4: [: xprecustomization: unexpected > operator > /root/.customization/customize.sh: 6: [: xprecustomization: unexpected > operator > > The customization script log can be found at > /var/log/vmware-imc/customization.log > > The script is saved at /root/.customization/customize.sh > > I should make sure that the script is working with "sh". > > Also the script will not be updated even if we change it from VMware > vCloud Director interface. I hope this won't be a problem when spawning the > instance via jclouds. > > Now that I found out how customization script works, I will go ahead do > the code changes. > > Thanks! > > Best Regards, > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Shaheed, >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. >> >> The plan is to use the customization script and send the payload to >> vCloud VM. Then we plan to configure the base image to read those payload >> and run puppet agent etc. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Shaheed Haque <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Please ensure that Python2 and Python3 are possible options! >>> >>> >>> >>> (If nothing else, we probably want to encourage people towards these >>> higher layers rather than bash/cmd/etc.) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday 13 March 2014 11:28:36 Isuru Perera wrote: >>> >>> Planning to implement following solution. >>> >>> 1. Define "shell_type" as a property in Cartridge Definition. Possible >>> values can be "bash", "sh", "cmd", etc. >>> >>> 2. Dynamically create a customization script based on "shell_type" in >>> vCloud IaaS implementation. >>> >>> I will try to implement this in an extensible way (without code >>> modifications) for any shell_type. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Udara for the information. >>> >>> So, it seems we have to go ahead with the use of customization script in >>> vCloud. >>> >>> Next problem is that the script is dependent on the target Cartridge OS. >>> >>> Please let me know if you have any suggestions to solve this problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Udara Liyanage <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> AFIR the metadata is read by a init script inside the instance, not the >>> cartridge agent. >>> In EC2 and Openstack we can pass the user data using jclouds API. >>> However it can not be done in VCloud scenario. In VCloud custom metadata >>> can be stored in VApp. However in order retrieve username/password are >>> needed. >>> >>> I'v written to some blog post where they suggest to go via script as >>> Isuru is trying. >>> >>> >>> >>> Touched, not typed. Erroneous words are a feature, not a typo. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Isuru Perera >>> Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ >>> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >>> >>> about.me/chrishantha >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Isuru Perera >>> Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ >>> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >>> >>> about.me/chrishantha >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Isuru Perera >> Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ >> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware >> >> about.me/chrishantha >> > > > > -- > Isuru Perera > Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > about.me/chrishantha > -- Isuru Perera Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware about.me/chrishantha
