Userdata and metadata can be fetched from a cloud provider, VM runtime, or management service during the RancherOS boot process. Since v0.8.0, this process occurs while RancherOS is still running from memory and before System Docker starts. It is configured by the rancher.cloud_init.datasources
configuration parameter. For cloud-provider specific images, such as AWS and GCE, the datasource is pre-configured.
Userdata is a file given by users when launching RancherOS hosts. It is stored in different locations depending on its format. If the userdata is a cloud-config file, indicated by beginning with #cloud-config
and being in YAML format, it is stored in /var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config.d/boot.yml
. If the userdata is a script, indicated by beginning with #!
, it is stored in /var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config-script
.
Although the specifics vary based on provider, a metadata file will typically contain information about the RancherOS host and contain additional configuration. Its primary purpose within RancherOS is to provide an alternate source for SSH keys and hostname configuration. For example, AWS launches hosts with a set of authorized keys and RancherOS obtains these via metadata. Metadata is stored in /var/lib/rancher/conf/metadata
.
Cloud-config is read by system services when they need to get configuration. Each additional file overwrites and extends the previous configuration file.
/usr/share/ros/os-config.yml
- This is the system default configuration, which should not be modified by users./usr/share/ros/oem/oem-config.yml
- This will typically exist by OEM, which should not be modified by users./var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config.d/
ordered by filename. If a file is passed in through user-data, it is written by cloud-init and saved as /var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config.d/boot.yml
./var/lib/rancher/conf/cloud-config.yml
- If you set anything with ros config set
, the changes are saved in this file.rancher
./var/lib/rancher/conf/metadata
- Metadata added by cloud-init.