On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
