On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:27:45PM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> > You can ask for that user-data file more than once, though. It'd be kind of
> > nice if *that* listed the plugins needed.
> You might actually be able to do that now, but cloud-init doesn't yet
> have a way to install plugins that are missing. If that gets
> implemented then this becomes easy! :-)
What about a service that runs before cloud-init itself, scans the user-data
for needed plugins, and then yum-installs them if they're missing?
It woudn't have to be that smart -- if it hit something complicated, it
could just throw up its hands and install the whole shebang.
The primary downside I can see is that it's probably slower to do that than
to just have it all there.
That isn't going to work for every case, but it sounds like a great
"90%" starting point. Maybe a little script could read user-data, and
if it contains cloud-config data, the script reads that and takes
action on the bits that it has to.
What do you folks think? Anyone itching to give it a try?