jclouds has support for passing userdata to instances but that mechanism is not used for bootstrap in Whirr:
http://demobox.github.com/jclouds-maven-site-1.3.1/1.3.1/jclouds-multi/apidocs/org/jclouds/ec2/compute/options/EC2TemplateOptions.html There are some code changes needed to make this work. How would this be useful for you? -- Andrei Savu / andreisavu.ro On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Ashish <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks sorry for confusing terminology. > > I meant user-data scripts that can be passed to ec2 instances while > firing up. more details here > http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/ec2-userdata > > They can essentially help you do some stuff on the instance like > attaching EBS etc. > I am not sure if beforeBootstrap() function to achieve this. > > Just looking at a way of achieving the same functionality. > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Ashwanth Kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can try also S3 and then copy it after your instances are up. If it > > might help. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Marco Didonna <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On 5 March 2012 18:10, Ashish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Is there a way through which we can pass user data to ec2 instances, > >> > while firing up hadoop or other clusters? > >> > > >> > -- > >> > thanks > >> > ashish > >> > >> Well speaking of hadoop you can't pass anything until the full cluster > >> has been initialized. After that just use the simple hadoop fs > >> -copyfromlocal command, I'm sure you're familiar with it. > >> > >> Regards, > >> MD > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ashwanth Kumar / ashwanthkumar.in > > > > > > > > -- > thanks > ashish > > Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog > My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal >
