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| author | Christian Poessinger <christian@poessinger.com> | 2020-03-11 21:15:45 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-03-11 21:15:45 +0100 |
| commit | fd87c24ff8f6f09a7e2cc223a4e8cdb8c08f1ef8 (patch) | |
| tree | b754b3991e5e57a9ae9155819f73fa0cbd4be269 /doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ec2.rst | |
| parent | ca9a4eb26b41c204d1bd3a15586b14a5dde950bb (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #4 from zdc/T2117
Cloud-init: T2117: Updated to 20.1 version
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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ec2.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ec2.rst index 64c325d8..a90f3779 100644 --- a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ec2.rst +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/ec2.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ instance metadata. Metadata is accessible via the following URL: :: - + GET http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/ ami-id ami-launch-index @@ -34,19 +34,20 @@ Metadata is accessible via the following URL: Userdata is accessible via the following URL: :: - + GET http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/user-data 1234,fred,reboot,true | 4512,jimbo, | 173,,, Note that there are multiple versions of this data provided, cloud-init by default uses **2009-04-04** but newer versions can be supported with relative ease (newer versions have more data exposed, while maintaining -backward compatibility with the previous versions). +backward compatibility with the previous versions). -To see which versions are supported from your cloud provider use the following URL: +To see which versions are supported from your cloud provider use the following +URL: :: - + GET http://169.254.169.254/ 1.0 2007-01-19 @@ -90,4 +91,15 @@ An example configuration with the default values is provided below: max_wait: 120 timeout: 50 +Notes +----- + * There are 2 types of EC2 instances network-wise: VPC ones (Virtual Private + Cloud) and Classic ones (also known as non-VPC). One major difference + between them is that Classic instances have their MAC address changed on + stop/restart operations, so cloud-init will recreate the network config + file for EC2 Classic instances every boot. On VPC instances this file is + generated only in the first boot of the instance. + The check for the instance type is performed by is_classic_instance() + method. + .. vi: textwidth=78 |