I’m trying to create a droplet and adding a code (in this case a hardcoded ‘saraza’) to a file for later purposes. This code will change from droplet to droplet so I needed parametrized. But when I execute this, no file is created in my droplet. I’ve seen another questions that said that this is the way to do this.
curl -v -X POST “https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets”
-d’{“name”:“My-Droplet”,“region”:“nyc3”,“size”:“s-1vcpu-1gb”,“image”:“ubuntu-18-04-x64”, “ssh_keys”: [“‘$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_DO_FORMAT’”], “user_data”: "`#cloud-config
runcmd:
- echo saraza > ~/file.txt`"}’
-H “Authorization: Bearer $DO_API_TOKEN”
-H “Content-Type: application/json”)
Thanks for the help
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Hello, @dseidler
I will recommend you to check our official docs for the User Data:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/resources/metadata/#about-user-data
As shown in the example in the article you can simply create a bash script that will execute the command you want after the droplet creation.
curl -X POST "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" \
-d’{“name”:“My-Droplet”,“region”:“nyc3”,“size”:“s-1vcpu-1gb”,“image”:“ubuntu-18-04-x64”,"user_data":
"#!/bin/bash
echo saraza > ~/file.txt
-H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
You can try with the example above and see if it works for you.
Note: You can also check the output logs and see what happened when the startup script tried to run the user-data
The log is located here:
/var/log/cloud-init-output.log
Let me know how it goes.
Regards, Alex
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