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Droplet user-data with new lines

Hi there,

is there a simple way to add a bigger user-data file into the string?

We have quite a few linebreaks and it is cumbersome to add those. Is there a recommended online tool to convert smth like

#!/bin/bash

add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php
apt -y update
apt -y install nginx
apt -y install jq

into “#!/bin/bash \n add-apt-repository …”

The option to add a file link at whould be great too.

user_data

and

user_data_file

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Bobby Iliev
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• September 24, 2022

Hi there,

Yes, what you could do is to create a file and add that content into the file.

Let’s say that you’ve created a file called user-data.yml and you’ve added your script in there.

Then you could use the following curl request to spin up a new server with that user data file:

curl -X POST "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets" \
      -d'{"name":"metadata.example.com","region":"nyc3","size":"s-1vcpu-1gb","vpc_uuid":"c33931f2-a26a-4e61-b85c-4e95a2ec431b","image":"ubuntu-20-04-x64","user_data":
"'"$(cat ~/user-data.yml)"'",
      "ssh_keys":[ < SSH KEY IDs > ]}' \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

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