Hi Pratik,
No, it doesn't support a from-file option. But it should be pretty
straightforward to write a wrapper function that reads the contents of the
file and puts it into the standard 'startup-script' metadata format.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Pratik Bandarkar <
pratik.bandar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone confirm if using API, 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.
>
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Pratik Bandarkar <
> pratik.bandar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
