I’m just getting started with cloud-config etc for setting up a droplet, and I’m just running into a slight issue with running commands.
I’m trying to run some commands which have characters that upset the YAML parser, for instance:
runcmd:
- \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
The cloud init logs are giving me an error for runcmd, I’m assuming because it’s incorrectly parsing characters like “:” etc.
What is the correct way to specify this kind of command? Can I just put quotes around part of it, or should I escape the special characters somehow?
Cheers!
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The documentation is a bit lacking, but from the comments on the example in the upstream docs you learn:
So wrapping everything in single quotes seems like it should do the trick:
The resulting script can be found for debugging purposes in
/var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/runcmd