cloudinit/Documentation/cloud-config.md
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# Customize CoreOS with Cloud-Config
CoreOS allows you to configure machine parameters, launch systemd units on startup and more. Only a subset of [cloud-config functionality][cloud-config] is implemented. A set of custom parameters were added to the cloud-config format that are specific to CoreOS.
[cloud-config]: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/format.html#cloud-config-data
## Supported cloud-config Parameters
### ssh_authorized_keys
Provided public SSH keys will be authorized for the `core` user.
The keys will be named "coreos-cloudinit" by default.
Override this with the `--ssh-key-name` flag when calling `coreos-cloudinit`.
### hostname
The provided value will be used to set the system's hostname.
This is the local part of a fully-qualified domain name (i.e. `foo` in `foo.example.com`).
### users
Add or modify users with the `users` directive by providing a list of user objects, each consisting of the following fields.
Each field is optional and of type string unless otherwise noted.
All but the `passwd` and `ssh-authorized-keys` fields will be ignored if the user already exists.
- **name**: Required. Login name of user
- **gecos**: GECOS comment of user
- **passwd**: Hash of the password to use for this user
- **homedir**: User's home directory. Defaults to /home/<name>
- **no-create-home**: Boolean. Skip home directory createion.
- **primary-group**: Default group for the user. Defaults to a new group created named after the user.
- **groups**: Add user to these additional groups
- **no-user-group**: Boolean. Skip default group creation.
- **ssh-authorized-keys**: List of public SSH keys to authorize for this user
- **system**: Create the user as a system user. No home directory will be created.
- **no-log-init**: Boolean. Skip initialization of lastlog and faillog databases.
The following fields are not yet implemented:
- **inactive**: Deactivate the user upon creation
- **lock-passwd**: Boolean. Disable password login for user
- **sudo**: Entry to add to /etc/sudoers for user. By default, no sudo access is authorized.
- **selinux-user**: Corresponding SELinux user
- **ssh-import-id**: Import SSH keys by ID from Launchpad.
##### Generating a password hash
Generating a safe hash is important to the security of your system. Currently with updated tools like [oclhashcat](http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/) simplified hashes like md5crypt are trivial to crack on modern GPU hardware. You can generate a "safer" hash (read: not safe, never publish your hashes publicly) via:
###### On Debian/Ubuntu (via the package "whois")
mkpasswd --method=SHA-512 --rounds=4096
###### With OpenSSL (note: this will only make md5crypt. While better than plantext it should not be considered fully secure)
openssl passwd -1
###### With Python (change password and salt values)
python -c "import crypt, getpass, pwd; print crypt.crypt('password', '\$6\$SALT\$')"
###### With Perl (change password and salt values)
perl -e 'print crypt("password","\$6\$SALT\$") . "\n"'
Using a higher number of rounds will help create more secure passwords, but given enough time, password hashes can be reversed. On most RPM based distributions there is a tool called mkpasswd available in the `expect` package, but this does not handle "rounds" nor advanced hashing algorithms.
### write_files
Inject an arbitrary set of files to the local filesystem.
Provide a list of objects with the following attributes:
- **path**: Absolute location on disk where contents should be written
- **content**: Data to write at the provided `path`
- **permissions**: String representing file permissions in octal notation (i.e. '0644')
- **owner**: User and group that should own the file written to disk. This is equivalent to the `<user>:<group>` argument to `chown <user>:<group> <path>`.
## Custom cloud-config Parameters
### 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...
```
#cloud-config
coreos:
etcd:
name: node001
discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/3445fa65423d8b04df07f59fb40218f8
bind-addr: $public_ipv4:4001
peer-bind-addr: $private_ipv4:7001
```
...will generate a systemd snippet like this:
```
[Service]
Environment="ETCD_NAME=node001""
Environment="ETCD_DISCOVERY=https://discovery.etcd.io/3445fa65423d8b04df07f59fb40218f8"
Environment="ETCD_BIND_ADDR=203.0.113.29:4001"
Environment="ETCD_PEER_BIND_ADDR=192.0.2.13:7001"
```
For more information about the available configuration options, see the [etcd documentation][etcd-config].
Note that hyphens in the coreos.etcd.* keys are mapped to underscores.
[etcd-config]: https://github.com/coreos/etcd/blob/master/Documentation/configuration.md
### coreos.units
Arbitrary systemd units may be provided in the `coreos.units` attribute.
`coreos.units` is a list of objects with the following fields:
- **name**: string representing unit's name
- **runtime**: boolean indicating whether or not to persist the unit across reboots. This is analagous to the `--runtime` flag to `systemd enable`.
- **content**: plaintext string representing entire unit file
See docker example below.
## user-data Script
Simply set your user-data to a script where the first line is a shebang:
```
#!/bin/bash
echo 'Hello, world!'
```
## Examples
### Inject an SSH key, bootstrap etcd, and start fleet
```
#cloud-config
coreos:
etcd:
discovery: https://discovery.etcd.io/827c73219eeb2fa5530027c37bf18877
fleet:
autostart: yes
ssh_authorized_keys:
- ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC0g+ZTxC7weoIJLUafOgrm+h...
```
### Start a docker container on boot
```
#cloud-config
coreos:
units:
- name: docker-redis.service
content: |
[Unit]
Description=Redis container
Author=Me
After=docker.service
[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker start -a redis_server
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop -t 2 redis_server
[Install]
WantedBy=local.target
```
### Add a user
```
#cloud-config
users:
- name: elroy
passwd: $6$5s2u6/jR$un0AvWnqilcgaNB3Mkxd5yYv6mTlWfOoCYHZmfi3LDKVltj.E8XNKEcwWm...
groups:
- staff
- docker
ssh-authorized-keys:
- ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC0g+ZTxC7weoIJLUafOgrm+h...
```
### Inject configuration files
```
#cloud-config
write_files:
- path: /etc/hosts
contents: |
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.0.2.211 buildbox
- path: /etc/resolv.conf
contents: |
nameserver 192.0.2.13
nameserver 192.0.2.14
```