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Matt Riedemann 3fc85389e5 Import user-data page from openstack-manuals 
This imports the "provide-user-data-to-instances" page
from the old openstack-manuals user guide.

Since we don't have a glossary, the :term: link is removed
and replaced with just giving the glossary definition as
the first part of the doc.

Change-Id: Iae70d9b53d6cefb3bcb107fe68499cccb71fc15e
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Provide user data to instances

User data is a blob of data that the user can specify when they launch an instance. The instance can access this data through the metadata service or config drive. Commonly used to pass a shell script that the instance runs on boot.

For example, one application that uses user data is the cloud-init system, which is an open-source package from Ubuntu that is available on various Linux distributions and which handles early initialization of a cloud instance.

You can place user data in a local file and pass it through the --user-data <user-data-file> parameter at instance creation.

$ openstack server create --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 \
  --user-data mydata.file VM_INSTANCE