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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources.rst index a60f5eb7..7e2854de 100644 --- a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources.rst +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources.rst @@ -94,5 +94,6 @@ Follow for more information. datasources/ovf.rst datasources/smartos.rst datasources/fallback.rst + datasources/gce.rst .. vi: textwidth=78 diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8406695c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +.. _datasource_gce: + +Google Compute Engine +===================== + +The GCE datasource gets its data from the internal compute metadata server. +Metadata can be queried at the URL +'``http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/``' +from within an instance. For more information see the `GCE metadata docs`_. + +Currently the default project and instance level metadatakeys keys +``project/attributes/sshKeys`` and ``instance/attributes/ssh-keys`` are merged +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*. + +.. _GCE metadata docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/storing-retrieving-metadata#querying + +.. vi: textwidth=78 |