Question
How to edit and re-run Cloud-Config user data?
I’m debugging a Cloud-Config user data script. It’d be nice to make changes and re-run, without rebooting, if that’s possible?
Here’s me doing it wrong:
#cloud-config
runcmd:
- date >> /var/log/runcmd.log
After the instance boots, /var/log/cloud-init.log
has:
Running module runcmd
[...]
finish: modules-config/config-runcmd: SUCCESS: config-runcmd ran successfully
and runcmd.log
has one entry – so far, so good. Goal #1 is to add a second entry.
cloud-init init
seems to only run vendor data. The internet says to first run cloud-init clean
. This seems to delete my user data.
cloud-init single --name runcmd --frequency always
writes the script out, but never runs it:
Cloud-init v. 19.1-1-gbaa47854-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 running 'single'
[...]
Writing to /var/lib/cloud/instances/152272562/scripts/runcmd - wb: [700] 38 bytes
Reading from /proc/uptime (quiet=False)
Read 14 bytes from /proc/uptime
cloud-init mode 'single' took 0.198 seconds (0.20)
I beleive the semaphore file is ignored ignored with --frequency always
. Removing the semaphore file didn’t help.
If I reach goal #1, the second is to edit the user data – will Cloud-Config read from /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt
, or is this just an artifact?
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