[ec2-beta] feature request: user-data scripts

[Eric Hammond]

Keary:

Yes, the user-data script functionality has been copied into the
official Ubuntu beta images.

And it actually works in beta2 ;)

It's not your fault for missing it.  It's about as (un)documented in the
official beta as it is in my images, but it works exactly the same way.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Keary Griffin wrote:
> I know this is a little late in the game for this release, but maybe for 
> the future, one of things I really liked about the Eric's alestic Ubuntu 
> images was the ability for the image to launch a script supplied in the 
> ec2 user-data on first boot.
> 
> This allows people to launch the AMI's as-is without needing to 
> rebundle, and use the user-data supplied script to customize the image 
> on boot.
> 
> I've seen a bunch of talk on this list lately about the pros and cons of 
> rebundling/not rebundling the AMI's.   I usually rebundle my AMI's 
> (because without a feature like the above it's a necessity), but find it 
> time-consuming and would rather skip this step.  Being able to specify a 
> script to launch on first-boot would allow me to skip this step.
> 
> And if this functionality is already there and I missed it, I'll 
> apologize in advance.
> 
> Thanks
> Keary
>