Hi Markos,
Thanks for your reply.
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Markos Gogoulos <mgogou...@mist.io> wrote:
> Hi Pratik,
>
> libcloud function that creates a VM on GCP (aka create_node() on
> libcloud/libcloud/compute/drivers/gce.py) accepts an ex_metadata
> dictionary
> that can contain the startup script. It expects something like this:
>
> metadata = {
> 'startup-script': '#!/bin/bash\ntouch /tmp/hello',
> }
>
> or if you also specify an ssh key to be deployed on the VM
>
> key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz.... (rest of a pub key)"
> metadata = {
> 'startup-script': '#!/bin/bash\ntouch /tmp/hello',
> 'sshKeys': 'user:%s' % key
> }
>
>
> not sure though if this is supported by saltstack.
>
Saltstack does support specifying "startup-script" in "metadata". But,
instead of writing all commands in the "startup-script" value, is it
possible to write startup script and pass location of the script in the
metadata ?
Regards,
Pratik.
>
> Cheers,
> Markos
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Pratik Bandarkar <
> pratik.bandar...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > To be more specific, does it provide "--metadata-from-file" option to
> > specify startup script file?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pratik.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Pratik Bandarkar <
> > pratik.bandar...@gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am using saltstack for deployment of instances on top of GCE. I would
> > > like to know if we can provide startup/cloud-init script while spawning
> > an
> > > instance? Does libcloud support this functionality for saltstack?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Pratik.
> > >
> >
>
