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diff --git a/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst b/doc/rtd/topics/datasources/gce.rst index 8406695c..70aefea2 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 +.. vi: textwidth=79 |