Instance Metadata

[rnavarro]

Is there a way to pass metadata to the provisioned instances?

In particular I'd like to pass a "startup-script-url" metadata parameter to the instances that bdutil creates:

--metadata startup-script-url=startup-script-url=gs://bucket/bootstrap.sh

so I can kick off a custom configuration of my nodes

This feature is documentation here:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/instances/create

[rnavarro]

Hey Guys,

Any word on this? Could you point me in the direction on where/how I would do this? I can make a PR for this?

[AngusDavis]

@rnavarro - Do you need different metadata per node? Or is a single metadata key for the entire cluster sufficient?

[rnavarro]

@AngusDavis

Single is sufficient.

Our provisioning scripts figure out what to do per-node.

[rnavarro]

@AngusDavis any guidance on this one?

[AngusDavis]

@rnavarro - I have a POC working here: https://github.com/AngusDavis/bdutil/tree/metadata_tags

[rnavarro]

@AngusDavis Awesome!

I'll check it out and kick the tires