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| author | vteratipally <67723486+vteratipally@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-09-20 21:53:05 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-09-20 22:53:05 -0600 |
| commit | e27c30748e88409b1646a552f994edf9ed9d017e (patch) | |
| tree | 638e22b5f5b59e2636fe3bca7e659358b9637b63 /doc | |
| parent | dc22786980a05129c5971e68ae37b1a9f76f882d (diff) | |
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Add retries to DataSourceGCE.py when connecting to GCE (#1005)
Add retries to DatasourceGCE when connecting to GCE.
Sometimes when the trying to fetch the metadata,
cloud-init fails and the fallback datasource NoCloud is used which is
not expected. Add retries to ensure loading of the data source.
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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst index 8406695c..f3590282 100644 --- a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst @@ -15,6 +15,28 @@ to provide ``public-keys``. ``user-data`` and ``user-data-encoding`` can be provided to cloud-init by setting those custom metadata keys for an *instance*. +Configuration +------------- +The following configuration can be set for the datasource in system +configuration (in `/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg` or `/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/`). + +The settings that may be configured are: + + * **retries**: The number of retries that should be done for an http request. + This value is used only after metadata_url is selected. (default: 5) + * **sec_between_retries**: The amount of wait time between the retries when + crawling the metadata service. (default: 1) + + +An example configuration with the default values is provided below: + +.. sourcecode:: yaml + + datasource: + GCE: + retries: 5 + sec_between_retries: 1 + .. _GCE metadata docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata#querying .. vi: textwidth=78 |