Attempting to run a bash script via user-data on creation isn't working and no logs

Thanks for brining this to Q&A. Much easier than going over it 140 chars at a time =)

I would recommend using the following in your user-data when creating the droplet in order to accomplish this:

#cloud-config

runcmd:
  - curl {script url} | sh

Since it is a single line, a full bash script shouldn’t be necessary.

Thanks for brining this to Q&A. Much easier than going over it 140 chars at a time =)

I would recommend using the following in your user-data when creating the droplet in order to accomplish this:

#cloud-config

runcmd:
  - curl {script url} | sh

Since it is a single line, a full bash script shouldn’t be necessary.

Even I am unable to run the script. I am using API V2

{ “name”: “example.com”, “region”: “nyc3”, “size”: “s-1vcpu-1gb”, “image”: “ubuntu-16-04-x64”, “ssh_keys”: null, “backups”: false, “ipv6”: false, “user_data”: “#cloud-config runcmd: - curl <URL> | sh”, “private_networking”: null, “volumes”: null, “tags”: [ “web” ] }

Please help me regarding what am I doing wrong here?

have to say via api I made the mistake of using the field user-data rather than the correct one which is user_data . Once I realised this it worked!!! might help somebody…

Sorry to bring an old post up, but I’m having the same issue with a new Centos 7 droplet. This user script - https://github.com/digitalocean/do_user_scripts/blob/master/CentOS-7/web-servers/lamp.yml - won’t get excecuted on droplet creation.

Unfortunately, it looks as though “User Data” scripts do not run automatically on CentOS 6.x (versions < 7).

Did you ever solve this problem? I have the same problem with my newly created droplets (ams3, Debian 7 x64). The user data is available from the meta-data service: “curl http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/user-data” but it’s not getting executed.

Script (bash) works fine when run manually on the droplet.

That didn’t run it either :( I also looked in /var/log/messages and still didn’t see anything there referencing that it ever ran this script. I also looked through other logs in /var/log/ and didn’t see anything about it either. Is there another spot where the output goes when this is run?