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Diffstat (limited to 'cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py b/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py index 9e2fdc0a..4ec9592f 100644 --- a/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py +++ b/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py @@ -316,10 +316,16 @@ def identify_platform(): def _collect_platform_data(): - # returns a dictionary with all lower case values: - # uuid: system-uuid from dmi or /sys/hypervisor - # uuid_source: 'hypervisor' (/sys/hypervisor/uuid) or 'dmi' - # serial: dmi 'system-serial-number' (/sys/.../product_serial) + """Returns a dictionary of platform info from dmi or /sys/hypervisor. + + Keys in the dictionary are as follows: + uuid: system-uuid from dmi or /sys/hypervisor + uuid_source: 'hypervisor' (/sys/hypervisor/uuid) or 'dmi' + serial: dmi 'system-serial-number' (/sys/.../product_serial) + + On Ec2 instances experimentation is that product_serial is upper case, + and product_uuid is lower case. This returns lower case values for both. + """ data = {} try: uuid = util.load_file("/sys/hypervisor/uuid").strip() |