please help test beta test candidate cloud images

[Sam Kottler]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Garrett Holmstrom" <gholms at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:29:06 PM
> Subject: Re: please help test beta test candidate cloud images
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> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Sandro "red" Mathys
> <red at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Crazy idea: disable the Firewall by default but allow users to enable
> > it through cloud-init (i.e. user-data)? Just in case there are people
> > who prefer the instance's firewall over security groups and open the
> > latter up a lot / completely. Probably a stupid thought, but I thought
> > I'd share it for the lulz.
> 
> If nothing else, if you pass a script as user-data cloud-init will
> execute it late in the system's startup process.  It looks for "#!".

Yep, that'd work although it's a little hacky. Writing cloud-init modules is super easy so we could also ship our own cloud-init module that would activate the instance's firewall based on some user data.

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