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

[Rodney T. Quillo]

Hi Keary,

I tested the user-data script when launching the instance on ubuntu beta AMI 
and its working great. 

You can check the init script /etc/init.d/ec2-init calling the command to run 
ec2-run-user-data. 

Rodney

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 07:15:43 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