Thanks for info Eric.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Eric Johnson <erjoh...@apache.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Do you mean outside of libcloud/gce should I create function which will
read from script file and put it into "startup-script" ? It would be great
if you can provide more pointers on it.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Pratik.
>
> 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.
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
>
