User data 1) is used by cloud-init 2). Cloud init is a service that executes early in the boot process and reads user-data (among other things) and can modify the VM's setup. It can add users and ssh-keys to allow connection via ssh. But it's not guaranteed to finish before sshd starts, so there is no strict order.
I sugest that you read the references, Google and get back if you get any more specific follow up questions. // Rickard 1) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html 2) http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ On 22 May 2018 at 07:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have a bash script that installs a few things before my ansible-local > run within the provisioner block. My intial draft I had a shell provisioner > that would run my bash script. It works fine and ansible runs fine. I > learned about user_data_file and decided to move this initial shell script > out of the provisioner and set it as a user_data_file. It doesn't seem to > work because I have it installing ansible on the image Packer is building > in order to run the ansible-local provisioner. > > Does user_data_file run at the end before it snapshots the image or does > it run BEFORE the provisioner starts? > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/af009da8-6228-406a-8f72-53926c1d7a84%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/af009da8-6228-406a-8f72-53926c1d7a84%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-BbpdP%3DPVYStOyYpezOHNkK7a7KpqJRka6yxbfgX7_Wg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
