One way to customize the personality of an instance is by injecting data into it upon boot
This would be handy for updating /etc/passwd or /etc/group with customized pre-built files.
Here is an example:
nova boot --image cirros-qcow2 --flavor m1.tiny --file /etc/passwd=/your/local/path/passwd MyInstance
By default, the Icehouse release of OpenStack can support up 5 files:
nova boot --image cirros-qcow2 --flavor m1.tiny --file /home/cirros/myfirstfile=myfirstfile --file /home/cirros/mysecondfile=mysecondfile --file /home/cirros/mythirdfile=mythirdfile --file /home/cirros/myfourthfile=myfourthfile --file /home/cirros/myfifthfile=myfifthfile MyInstance
If you would like to inject more than 5 files, update your /etc/nova/nova.conf with the following flag:
quota_injected_files=50
Restart nova-compute
sudo service nova-compute restart
50 appears to the max amount of files it will allow you to pass.
Additional info about file injection:
- Max size per file is 255 bytes.
- One can only inject text files. Binary or zip files won't work.
- During file injection, any existing files that match specified files are renamed to include .bak extension appended with a time stamp.
- Once written, the files have 0440 permissions.
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