BYOLinux: mention runcmd to replace postInstallationScript#9180
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BYOLinux does not support the postInstallationScript customization available on standard OVHcloud OS templates. Added a note and updated the API example to use a cloud-init configDriveUserData with runcmd. See also ovh/docs#9180
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Maybe we should use the same script as we provided elsewhere in the official docuementation ?
#!/bin/bash
echo "coucou postInstallationScript" > /opt/coucou
cat /etc/machine-id >> /opt/coucou
date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" --utc >> /opt/coucou
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Sure why not. I'll do that for consistency :)
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Done, I also changed one word (obfuscated → masked) and used an ED25519 SSH key as example to be more modern.
BYOLinux does not support the postInstallationScript customization available on standard OVHcloud OS templates. Added a warning note under Deployment options and updated the configDriveUserData example to include a cloud-init runcmd section.
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BYOLinux does not support the postInstallationScript customization available on standard OVHcloud OS templates. Added a warning note under Deployment options and updated the configDriveUserData example to include a cloud-init runcmd section.
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See also ovh/bringyourownlinux#18