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authorBen Howard <ben.howard@canonical.com>2014-01-08 17:16:24 -0700
committerBen Howard <ben.howard@canonical.com>2014-01-08 17:16:24 -0700
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Significant re-working of the userdata handling and introduction of
vendordata. Vendordata is a datasource provided userdata-like blob that is parsed similiarly to userdata, execept at the user's pleasure. cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_vendor.py: added vendor script cloud config cloudinit/config/cc_vendor_scripts_per_boot.py: added vendor per boot cloud config cloudinit/config/cc_vendor_scripts_per_instance.py: added vendor per instance vendor cloud config cloudinit/config/cc_vendor_scripts_per_once.py: added per once vendor cloud config script doc/examples/cloud-config-vendor-data.txt: documentation of vendor-data examples doc/vendordata.txt: documentation of vendordata for vendors (RENAMED) tests/unittests/test_userdata.py => tests/unittests/test_userdata.py TO: tests/unittests/test_userdata.py => tests/unittests/test_data.py: userdata test cases are not expanded to confirm superiority over vendor data. bin/cloud-init: change instances of 'consume_userdata' to 'consume_data' cloudinit/handlers/cloud_config.py: Added vendor script handling to default cloud-config modules cloudinit/handlers/shell_script.py: Added ability to change the path key to support vendor provided 'vendor-scripts'. Defaults to 'script'. cloudinit/helpers.py: - Changed ConfigMerger to include handling of vendordata. - Changed helpers to include paths for vendordata. cloudinit/sources/__init__.py: Added functions for helping vendordata - get_vendordata_raw(): returns vendordata unprocessed - get_vendordata(): returns vendordata through userdata processor - has_vendordata(): indicator if vendordata is present - consume_vendordata(): datasource directive for indicating explict user approval of vendordata consumption. Defaults to 'false' cloudinit/stages.py: Re-jiggered for handling of vendordata - _initial_subdirs(): added vendor script definition - update(): added self._store_vendordata() - [ADDED] _store_vendordata(): store vendordata - _get_default_handlers(): modified to allow for filtering which handlers will run against vendordata - [ADDED] _do_handlers(): moved logic from consume_userdata to _do_handlers(). This allows _consume_vendordata() and _consume_userdata() to use the same code path. - [RENAMED] consume_userdata() to _consume_userdata() - [ADDED] _consume_vendordata() for handling vendordata - run after userdata to get user cloud-config - uses ConfigMerger to get the configuration from the instance perspective about whether or not to use vendordata - [ADDED] consume_data() to call _consume_{user,vendor}data cloudinit/util.py: - [ADDED] get_nested_option_as_list() used by cc_vendor* for getting a nested value from a dict and returned as a list - runparts(): added 'exe_prefix' for running exe with a prefix, used by cc_vendor* config/cloud.cfg: Added vendor script execution as default tests/unittests/test_runs/test_merge_run.py: changed consume_userdata() to consume_data() tests/unittests/test_runs/test_simple_run.py: changed consume_userdata() to consume_data()
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+=== Overview ===
+Vendordata is data provided by the entity that launches an instance.
+The cloud provider makes this data available to the instance via in one
+way or another.
+
+Vendordata follows the same rules as user-data, with the following
+caveauts:
+ 1. Users have ultimate control over vendordata
+ 2. By default it only runs on first boot
+ 3. Vendordata runs at the users pleasure. If the use of
+ vendordata is required for the instance to run, then
+ vendordata should not be used.
+ 4. Most vendor operations should be done either via script,
+ boot_hook or upstart job.
+
+Vendors utilizing the vendordata channel are strongly advised to
+use the #cloud-config-jsonp method, otherwise they risk that a
+user can accidently override choices.
+
+Further, we strongly advise vendors to not 'be evil'. By evil, we
+mean any action that could compromise a system. Since users trust
+you, please take care to make sure that any vendordata is safe,
+atomic, indopenant and does not put your users at risk.
+
+cloud-init can read this input and act on it in different ways.
+
+=== Input Formats ===
+cloud-init will download and cache to filesystem any vendor-data that it
+finds. However, certain types of vendor-data are handled specially.
+
+ * Gzip Compressed Content
+ content found to be gzip compressed will be uncompressed, and
+ these rules applied to the uncompressed data
+
+ * Mime Multi Part archive
+ This list of rules is applied to each part of this multi-part file
+ Using a mime-multi part file, the user can specify more than one
+ type of data. For example, both a user data script and a
+ cloud-config type could be specified.
+
+ * vendor-data Script
+ begins with: #! or Content-Type: text/x-shellscript
+ script will be executed at "rc.local-like" level during first boot.
+ rc.local-like means "very late in the boot sequence"
+
+ * Include File
+ begins with #include or Content-Type: text/x-include-url
+ This content is a "include" file. The file contains a list of
+ urls, one per line. Each of the URLs will be read, and their content
+ will be passed through this same set of rules. Ie, the content
+ read from the URL can be gzipped, mime-multi-part, or plain text
+
+* Include File Once
+ begins with #include-once or Content-Type: text/x-include-once-url
+ This content is a "include" file. The file contains a list of
+ urls, one per line. Each of the URLs will be read, and their content
+ will be passed through this same set of rules. Ie, the content
+ read from the URL can be gzipped, mime-multi-part, or plain text
+ This file will just be downloaded only once per instance, and its
+ contents cached for subsequent boots. This allows you to pass in
+ one-time-use or expiring URLs.
+
+ * Cloud Config Data
+ begins with #cloud-config or Content-Type: text/cloud-config
+
+ This content is "cloud-config" data. See the examples for a
+ commented example of supported config formats.
+
+ * Upstart Job
+ begins with #upstart-job or Content-Type: text/upstart-job
+
+ Content is placed into a file in /etc/init, and will be consumed
+ by upstart as any other upstart job.
+
+ * Cloud Boothook
+ begins with #cloud-boothook or Content-Type: text/cloud-boothook
+
+ This content is "boothook" data. It is stored in a file under
+ /var/lib/cloud and then executed immediately.
+
+ This is the earliest "hook" available. Note, that there is no
+ mechanism provided for running only once. The boothook must take
+ care of this itself. It is provided with the instance id in the
+ environment variable "INSTANCE_ID". This could be made use of to
+ provide a 'once-per-instance'
+
+=== Examples ===
+There are examples in the examples subdirectory.
+Additionally, the 'tools' directory contains 'write-mime-multipart',
+which can be used to easily generate mime-multi-part files from a list
+of input files. That data can then be given to an instance.
+
+See 'write-mime-multipart --help' for usage.