By Justin Noor
Cloud config is not working at all from the command line with APIv2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Anyone experience this? Even this simple script doesn’t work:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN" -d '{
"name": "myserver",
"region": "sfo2",
"size": "s-1vcpu-1gb",
"image": "ubuntu-18-04-x64",
"ssh_keys": ["XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"],
"user_data": "#cloud-config
write_files:
- content |
This is a test file
path: /etc/cloud-config-test
permissions: '0600'
owner: root:root"
}' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
At first glance, examining /var/log/cloud-init.log, and /var/log/cloud-init-output.log, reveals nothing about the ‘user-data:#cloud-config’ entry in my APIv2 POST. Due to their size I left them out. I would be happy to share them if needed.
Thanks
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Heya,
it seems that the issue might be related to the formatting of your user_data field. Please make sure you have proper formatting and indentation in your cloud-config YAML file.
Here’s a corrected version of your script:
- curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $MY_TOKEN" -d '{
- "name": "myserver",
- "region": "sfo2",
- "size": "s-1vcpu-1gb",
- "image": "ubuntu-18-04-x64",
- "ssh_keys": ["XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"],
- "user_data":
- "#cloud-config\n
- write_files:\n
- - content: |\n
- This is a test file\n
- path: /etc/cloud-config-test\n
- permissions: '\''0600'\''\n
- owner: root:root"
- }' "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
Please ensure you replace $MY_TOKEN and the ssh_keys_values with your actual API token and SSH key fingerprint.
If you still encounter issues, we suggest checking your log files and sharing relevant parts for further assistance. For more information on cloud-config, you can read our tutorial on the basics of cloud-config scripting.
Hope that this helps!
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