Good point, Thorsten. I think the 'bootstrap script' is the highest value add. Not a replacement for puppet/etc, but these services need to be installed before they can be used. Having an injection/exec feature allows you to overlay an embryo image with whatever you want to finish the job, albeit chef, puppet, apt-get whatever.
FWIW, jclouds is exposing this so that we don't depend so heavily on specific cloud support and images. If the vendor doesn't support injection, we simply ssh in, push the file, and exec it. Outside windows, accomplishing this cross-cloud isn't rocket science for most cases.
my 2p. -Adrian
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Thorsten von Eicken tve@rightscale.comwrote:
For EC2 you might consider supporting http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scriptshttp://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts, which is a nice way to go. Thorsten
Bob McWhirter wrote:
So, EC2 doesn't allow (this week) the specific injection of files into instances.
It does allow placement of up to 16k into a location that can be fetched by instance upon boot.
With EC2, we could 'fake' file injection, by only having the driver inject it into the instance boot metadata.
It'd be up to the image to actually do the pull at boot time.
I think this would allow supporting this functionality, and not being limited by what EC2 can (or can't) do.
A 20-line bash init.d script could be provided for people using EC2 to enable pulling from the metadata at boottime and injecting the file(s) locally.
Ultimately, "injection" is only partially defined to mean "push as far as possible for this provider". And I think that's fine.
-Bob
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Michael Neale wrote:
Hi All.
Would people consider an addition to the instance creation part of deltacloud API to allow the injection of files/content to specified paths? (an extra optional field(s) on the POST)?
(this is the sort of thing that we need to have in some kind of semi-formal RFC wiki setup for people to point at and shout).
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