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Editorial updates to common files, including sentence-style headings and consistency/clarity edits

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Change-Id: I9675dffd130c8aa6343143d9806adb4e0b74a55d
author: diane fleming
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Diane Fleming
2013-11-18 10:26:49 -06:00
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- moved to launch instances file -->
<section
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="inserting_userdata">
<title>Providing User Data to Instances</title>
<para><literal>User Data</literal> is a special key in the metadata
service which holds a file that cloud aware applications within
the guest instance can access. For example the <link
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="inserting_userdata">
<title>Provide user data to instances</title>
<para><firstterm>User data</firstterm> is a special key in the
metadata service that holds a file that cloud-aware applications
in the guest instance can access. For example the <link
xlink:href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit"
>cloudinit</link> system is an open source package from Ubuntu
that handles early initialization of a cloud instance that makes
use of this <literal>user data</literal>.</para>
<para>This user-data can be put in a file on your local system and
then passed in at instance creation with the flag
<literal>--user-data &lt;user-data-file&gt;</literal> for
example:
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 --user-data mydata.file</userinput></screen>
</para>
><package>cloudinit</package></link> system is a Ubuntu open
source package that handles early initialization of a cloud
instance and that makes use of <literal>user
data</literal>.</para>
<para>You can place user data in a local file and pass it through
the <parameter>--user-data &lt;user-data-file&gt;</parameter>
parameter at instance creation:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 --user-data mydata.file</userinput></screen>
</section>