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Execluded all XML files in the directory doc/common/tables because they are autogenerated. The XML root element of Docbook XML files should match the following format: <ELEMENT 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="THE_XML_ID_OF_THE_ELEMENT"> Change-Id: If12091be81ec8b2e6e53bfcb4c3a883a65e24736
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="inserting_userdata">
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<title>Provide user data to instances</title>
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<para>A <glossterm baseform="user data">user data</glossterm> file is a special key in the metadata service that
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holds a file that cloud-aware applications in the guest instance
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can access. For example, one application that uses user data is
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the <link xlink:href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit"
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>cloud-init</link> system, which is an open-source package from
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Ubuntu that is available on various Linux distributions and which
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handles early initialization of a cloud instance.</para>
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<para>You can place user data in a local file and pass it through
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the <parameter>--user-data <user-data-file></parameter>
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parameter at instance creation:</para>
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<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova boot --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 --user-data mydata.file</userinput></screen>
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</section>
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