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doc(fields): Document field substitution
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Brian Waldon
2014-03-21 14:41:53 -07:00
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### coreos.etcd
The `coreos.etcd.*` options are translated to a partial systemd unit acting as an etcd configuration file.
`coreos-cloudinit` will also replace the strings `$private_ipv4` and `$public_ipv4` with the values generated by CoreOS based on a given provider.
For example, the following cloud-config document...
We can use the templating feature of coreos-cloudinit to automate etcd configuration with the `$private_ipv4` and `$public_ipv4` fields. For example, the following cloud-config document...
```
#cloud-config

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nameserver 192.0.2.3
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## Executing a Script
coreos-cloudinit supports executing user-data as a script instead of parsing it as a cloud-config document.
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echo 'Hello, world!'
```
## user-data Field Substitution
coreos-cloudinit will replace the following set of tokens in your user-data with system-generated values.
| Token | Description |
| ------------- | ----------- |
| $public_ipv4 | Public IPv4 address of machine |
| $private_ipv4 | Private IPv4 address of machine |
These values are determined by CoreOS based on the given provider on which your machine is running.
Read more about provider-specific functionality in the [CoreOS OEM documentation][oem-doc].
[oem-doc]: https://coreos.com/docs/sdk-distributors/distributors/notes-for-distributors/
For example, submitting the following user-data...
```
#cloud-config
coreos:
etcd:
addr: $public_ipv4:4001
peer-addr: $private_ipv4:7001
```
...will result in this cloud-config document being executed:
```
#cloud-config
coreos:
etcd:
addr: 203.0.113.29:4001
peer-addr: 192.0.2.13:7001
```