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authorVlastimil Holer <vlastimil.holer@gmail.com>2013-09-05 13:11:09 +0200
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+================
+Azure Datasource
+================
+
+This datasource finds metadata and user-data from the Azure cloud platform.
+
+Azure Platform
+--------------
+The azure cloud-platform provides initial data to an instance via an attached
+CD formated in UDF. That CD contains a 'ovf-env.xml' file that provides some
+information. Additional information is obtained via interaction with the
+"endpoint". The ip address of the endpoint is advertised to the instance
+inside of dhcp option 245. On ubuntu, that can be seen in
+/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases as a colon delimited hex value (example:
+``option unknown-245 64:41:60:82;`` is 100.65.96.130)
+
+walinuxagent
+------------
+In order to operate correctly, cloud-init needs walinuxagent to provide much
+of the interaction with azure. In addition to "provisioning" code, walinux
+does the following on the agent is a long running daemon that handles the
+following things:
+- generate a x509 certificate and send that to the endpoint
+
+waagent.conf config
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+in order to use waagent.conf with cloud-init, the following settings are recommended. Other values can be changed or set to the defaults.
+
+ ::
+
+ # disabling provisioning turns off all 'Provisioning.*' function
+ Provisioning.Enabled=n
+ # this is currently not handled by cloud-init, so let walinuxagent do it.
+ ResourceDisk.Format=y
+ ResourceDisk.MountPoint=/mnt
+
+
+Userdata
+--------
+Userdata is provided to cloud-init inside the ovf-env.xml file. Cloud-init
+expects that user-data will be provided as base64 encoded value inside the
+text child of a element named ``UserData`` or ``CustomData`` which is a direct
+child of the ``LinuxProvisioningConfigurationSet`` (a sibling to ``UserName``)
+If both ``UserData`` and ``CustomData`` are provided behavior is undefined on
+which will be selected.
+
+In the example below, user-data provided is 'this is my userdata', and the
+datasource config provided is ``{"agent_command": ["start", "walinuxagent"]}``.
+That agent command will take affect as if it were specified in system config.
+
+Example:
+
+.. code::
+
+ <wa:ProvisioningSection>
+ <wa:Version>1.0</wa:Version>
+ <LinuxProvisioningConfigurationSet
+ xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure"
+ xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
+ <ConfigurationSetType>LinuxProvisioningConfiguration</ConfigurationSetType>
+ <HostName>myHost</HostName>
+ <UserName>myuser</UserName>
+ <UserPassword/>
+ <CustomData>dGhpcyBpcyBteSB1c2VyZGF0YQ===</CustomData>
+ <dscfg>eyJhZ2VudF9jb21tYW5kIjogWyJzdGFydCIsICJ3YWxpbnV4YWdlbnQiXX0=</dscfg>
+ <DisableSshPasswordAuthentication>true</DisableSshPasswordAuthentication>
+ <SSH>
+ <PublicKeys>
+ <PublicKey>
+ <Fingerprint>6BE7A7C3C8A8F4B123CCA5D0C2F1BE4CA7B63ED7</Fingerprint>
+ <Path>this-value-unused</Path>
+ </PublicKey>
+ </PublicKeys>
+ </SSH>
+ </LinuxProvisioningConfigurationSet>
+ </wa:ProvisioningSection>
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+Configuration for the datasource can be read from the system config's or set
+via the `dscfg` entry in the `LinuxProvisioningConfigurationSet`. Content in
+dscfg node is expected to be base64 encoded yaml content, and it will be
+merged into the 'datasource: Azure' entry.
+
+The '``hostname_bounce: command``' entry can be either the literal string
+'builtin' or a command to execute. The command will be invoked after the
+hostname is set, and will have the 'interface' in its environment. If
+``set_hostname`` is not true, then ``hostname_bounce`` will be ignored.
+
+An example might be:
+ command: ["sh", "-c", "killall dhclient; dhclient $interface"]
+
+.. code::
+
+ datasource:
+ agent_command
+ Azure:
+ agent_command: [service, walinuxagent, start]
+ set_hostname: True
+ hostname_bounce:
+ # the name of the interface to bounce
+ interface: eth0
+ # policy can be 'on', 'off' or 'force'
+ policy: on
+ # the method 'bounce' command.
+ command: "builtin"
+ hostname_command: "hostname"
+ }
+
+hostname
+--------
+When the user launches an instance, they provide a hostname for that instance.
+The hostname is provided to the instance in the ovf-env.xml file as
+``HostName``.
+
+Whatever value the instance provides in its dhcp request will resolve in the
+domain returned in the 'search' request.
+
+The interesting issue is that a generic image will already have a hostname
+configured. The ubuntu cloud images have 'ubuntu' as the hostname of the
+system, and the initial dhcp request on eth0 is not guaranteed to occur after
+the datasource code has been run. So, on first boot, that initial value will
+be sent in the dhcp request and *that* value will resolve.
+
+In order to make the ``HostName`` provided in the ovf-env.xml resolve, a
+dhcp request must be made with the new value. Walinuxagent (in its current
+version) handles this by polling the state of hostname and bouncing ('``ifdown
+eth0; ifup eth0``' the network interface if it sees that a change has been
+made.
+
+cloud-init handles this by setting the hostname in the DataSource's 'get_data'
+method via '``hostname $HostName``', and then bouncing the interface. This
+behavior can be configured or disabled in the datasource config. See
+'Configuration' above.
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+==================
+SmartOS Datasource
+==================
+
+This datasource finds metadata and user-data from the SmartOS virtualization
+platform (i.e. Joyent).
+
+SmartOS Platform
+----------------
+The SmartOS virtualization platform meta-data to the instance via the second
+serial console. On Linux, this is /dev/ttyS1. The data is a provided via a
+simple protocol, where something queries for the userdata, where the console
+responds with the status and if "SUCCESS" returns until a single ".\n".
+
+New versions of the SmartOS tooling will include support for base64 encoded data.
+
+Userdata
+--------
+
+In SmartOS parlance, user-data is a actually meta-data. This userdata can be
+provided a key-value pairs.
+
+Cloud-init supports reading the traditional meta-data fields supported by the
+SmartOS tools. These are:
+ * root_authorized_keys
+ * hostname
+ * enable_motd_sys_info
+ * iptables_disable
+
+Note: At this time iptables_disable and enable_motd_sys_info are read but
+ are not actioned.
+
+user-script
+-----------
+
+SmartOS traditionally supports sending over a user-script for execution at the
+rc.local level. Cloud-init supports running user-scripts as if they were
+cloud-init user-data. In this sense, anything with a shell interpreter
+directive will run
+
+user-data and user-script
+-------------------------
+
+In the event that a user defines the meta-data key of "user-data" it will
+always supercede any user-script data. This is for consistency.
+
+base64
+------
+
+The following are exempt from base64 encoding, owing to the fact that they
+are provided by SmartOS:
+ * root_authorized_keys
+ * enable_motd_sys_info
+ * iptables_disable
+
+This list can be changed through system config of variable 'no_base64_decode'.
+
+This means that user-script and user-data as well as other values can be
+base64 encoded. Since Cloud-init can only guess as to whether or not something
+is truly base64 encoded, the following meta-data keys are hints as to whether
+or not to base64 decode something:
+ * base64_all: Except for excluded keys, attempt to base64 decode
+ the values. If the value fails to decode properly, it will be
+ returned in its text
+ * base64_keys: A comma deliminated list of which keys are base64 encoded.
+ * b64-<key>:
+ for any key, if there exists an entry in the metadata for 'b64-<key>'
+ Then 'b64-<key>' is expected to be a plaintext boolean indicating whether
+ or not its value is encoded.
+ * no_base64_decode: This is a configuration setting
+ (i.e. /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d) that sets which values should not be
+ base64 decoded.