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Add user-data after creation

Posted on October 10, 2014

Is it possible to enable user-data after droplet creation?



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Yeah, this sucks. Is there a feature request for this? Tweaking a script is going to be quite cumbersome with this workflow. And if any little thing changes requiring a tweak to the script, we have to destroy the droplet. Not good.

You can’t add cloud-config to an existing droplet. Just destroy it and create a new droplet with your user-data.

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