» template_cloudinit_config

Renders a multipart MIME configuration for use with Cloud-init.

Cloud-init is a commonly-used startup configuration utility for cloud compute instances. It accepts configuration via provider-specific user data mechanisms, such as user_data for Amazon EC2 instances. Multipart MIME is one of the data formats it accepts. For more information, see User-Data Formats in the Cloud-init manual.

This is not a generalized utility for producing multipart MIME messages. Its featureset is specialized for the features of cloud-init.

» Example Usage

# Render a part using a `template_file`
data "template_file" "script" {
  template = "${file("${path.module}/init.tpl")}"

  vars {
    consul_address = "${aws_instance.consul.private_ip}"
  }
}

# Render a multi-part cloud-init config making use of the part
# above, and other source files
data "template_cloudinit_config" "config" {
  gzip          = true
  base64_encode = true

  # Main cloud-config configuration file.
  part {
    filename     = "init.cfg"
    content_type = "text/cloud-config"
    content      = "${data.template_file.script.rendered}"
  }

  part {
    content_type = "text/x-shellscript"
    content      = "baz"
  }

  part {
    content_type = "text/x-shellscript"
    content      = "ffbaz"
  }
}

# Start an AWS instance with the cloud-init config as user data
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
  ami              = "ami-d05e75b8"
  instance_type    = "t2.micro"
  user_data_base64 = "${data.template_cloudinit_config.config.rendered}"
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• gzip - (Optional) Specify whether or not to gzip the rendered output. Defaults to true.

• base64_encode - (Optional) Base64 encoding of the rendered output. Defaults to true, and cannot be disabled if gzip is true.

• part - (Required) A nested block type which adds a file to the generated cloud-init configuration. Use multiple part blocks to specify multiple files, which will be included in order of declaration in the final MIME document.

Each part block expects the following arguments:

• content - (Required) Body content for the part.

• filename - (Optional) A filename to report in the header for the part.

• content_type - (Optional) A MIME-style content type to report in the header for the part.

• merge_type - (Optional) A value for the X-Merge-Type header of the part, to control cloud-init merging behavior.

» Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

• rendered - The final rendered multi-part cloud-init config.