<div dir="ltr">Yep, vendor data is also covered in the cloud-init docs:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/datasources.html#vendor-data">http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/datasources.html#vendor-data</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Fox, Kevin M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov" target="_blank">Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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Vendor data can do that. See the json metadata plugin to the nova metadata server and the vendor data section of cloud init.<br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Kris G. Lindgren<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2015 8:38:33 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-operators] adding postinstall scripts in cloud init<br>
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<div>Do you mean outside of the standard supplying user_data when the VM boots?  Or do you mean that you (as the cloud provider) want every vm to always do x,y,z and to leave user_data open to your end users?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Openstack Guru <<a href="mailto:openstackguru@gmail.com" target="_blank">openstackguru@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 8:57 AM<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Openstack-operators] adding postinstall scripts in cloud init<br>
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<div>I would like to add some command's in cloud init to execute while building an instance. Please advice best way to accomplish this?</div>
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