What's the point of user_data?

[s...@integrichain.com]

So I have a bash script that installs a few things before my ansible-local run within the provisioner block. My intial draft I had a shell provisioner that would run my bash script. It works fine and ansible runs fine. I learned about user_data_file and decided to move this initial shell script out of the provisioner and set it as a user_data_file. It doesn't seem to work because I have it installing ansible on the image Packer is building in order to run the ansible-local provisioner.

Does user_data_file run at the end before it snapshots the image or does it run BEFORE the provisioner starts?

[Rickard von Essen]

User data 1) is used by cloud-init 2). Cloud init is a service that executes early in the boot process and reads user-data (among other things) and can modify the VM's setup. It can add users and ssh-keys to allow connection via ssh. But it's not guaranteed to finish before sshd starts, so there is no strict order.

I sugest that you read the references, Google and get back if you get any more specific follow up questions. 

// Rickard

1) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html

2) http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

On 22 May 2018 at 07:00, <s...@integrichain.com> wrote:

So I have a bash script that installs a few things before my ansible-local run within the provisioner block. My intial draft I had a shell provisioner that would run my bash script. It works fine and ansible runs fine. I learned about user_data_file and decided to move this initial shell script out of the provisioner and set it as a user_data_file. It doesn't seem to work because I have it installing ansible on the image Packer is building in order to run the ansible-local provisioner.

Does user_data_file run at the end before it snapshots the image or does it run BEFORE the provisioner starts?

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[s...@integrichain.com]

Ok so it's actually the "user-data" I'm thinking of. So if i need it to run before I run my ansible playbook via the provisioner, that's not going to fly.

On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 7:22:57 AM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote:

User data 1) is used by cloud-init 2). Cloud init is a service that executes early in the boot process and reads user-data (among other things) and can modify the VM's setup. It can add users and ssh-keys to allow connection via ssh. But it's not guaranteed to finish before sshd starts, so there is no strict order.

I sugest that you read the references, Google and get back if you get any more specific follow up questions. 

// Rickard

1) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/user-data.html

2) http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

On 22 May 2018 at 07:00, <s...@integrichain.com> wrote:

So I have a bash script that installs a few things before my ansible-local run within the provisioner block. My intial draft I had a shell provisioner that would run my bash script. It works fine and ansible runs fine. I learned about user_data_file and decided to move this initial shell script out of the provisioner and set it as a user_data_file. It doesn't seem to work because I have it installing ansible on the image Packer is building in order to run the ansible-local provisioner.

Does user_data_file run at the end before it snapshots the image or does it run BEFORE the provisioner starts?

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[Megan Marsh]

You can install ansible via a shell provisioner before you run your ansible-local provisioner:

  "provisioners": [
    {
      "type": "shell",
      "inline": ["sudo apt-get -y update",
                "sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common",
                "sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible",
                "sudo apt-get -y update",
                "sudo apt-get -y install ansible"]
    },
    {
      "type":  "ansible-local",
      "playbook_file": "../ansible/playbook.yml"
    }
  ]