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author | Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com> | 2010-06-18 00:49:01 -0400 |
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committer | Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com> | 2010-06-18 00:49:01 -0400 |
commit | b261ce73c85c2f7b06b53f3c78184eb68c42dbf9 (patch) | |
tree | 5f4824f654e80be595844f3d5c17e54550835f0d | |
parent | 092ed302bd02d53039f1a071ff5d392673845ef4 (diff) | |
download | cloud-init-0.5.11.tar.gz |
doc: add mention of cloud-boothook to documentation0.5.11
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diff --git a/doc/userdata.txt b/doc/userdata.txt index a1873424..00c16b25 100644 --- a/doc/userdata.txt +++ b/doc/userdata.txt @@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ finds. However, certain types of user-data are handled specially. Content is placed into a file in /etc/init, and will be consumed by upstart as any other upstart job. + * Cloud Boothook + begins with #cloud-boothook or Content-Type: text/cloud-boothook + + This content is "boothook" data. It is stored in a file under + /var/lib/cloud and then executed immediately. + + This is the earliest "hook" available. Note, that there is no + mechanism provided for running only once. The boothook must take + care of this itself. It is provided with the instance id in the + environment variable "INSTANCE_ID". This could be made use of to + provide a 'once-per-instance' + === Examples === There are examples in the examples subdirectory. Additionally, the 'tools' directory contains 'write-mime-multipart', |