Hi, is there a way to run a script on node creatio...
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/19/2025, 9:06 PMHi, is there a way to run a script on node creation? This would allow us to configure our nodes without having to maintain custom images
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bland-article-62755
02/19/2025, 9:44 PMprobably via cloud init. What provider?
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 1:43 PMbare EC2
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 3:31 PMI don't understand, are you trying to have Rancher spin up a node? Are you provisioning the node manually? Are you using the AWS provider in Rancher to do it?
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 4:01 PMI have a RKE2 cluster managed by rancher. I'd like to be able to configure some kernel parameters (inotify limits) without having to maintain my own custom ubuntu system image.
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:03 PMRight, but how was it provisioned?
bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:05 PMAre you using the EC2 AWS provisioner or did you do it manually?
bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:05 PMThe bare part is what confused me.
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 4:05 PMah sorry, I just meant the EC2 AWS provisioner (bare as opposed to managed, like EKS)
nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 4:06 PMsorry for the confusion
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:06 PMIt's ok. Doesn't the EC2 AWS provisioner have a cloud init section?
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 4:07 PMI'm not familiar with cloud-init, but I will take a look and report back!
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:07 PMbland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 4:08 PMmakes it easy to install packages and do silly things for customization
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 6:57 PM@bland-article-62755 I can't seem to find docs on how to set the cloud-init script in the rancher UI, unfortunately
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 6:59 PMfor harvester (assuming aws is the same) it's here:
bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 6:59 PMimage.png
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 7:02 PMIt seems like the aws ec2 provider doesn't have those options 😕
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 7:08 PMbland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 7:09 PMYou might be able to set up a template with that data instead
bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 7:09 PMWe don't use AWS all that much in my shop, but maybe someone else has an idea
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 7:44 PMThanks again! The article seems to talk mainly about Amazon Linux (which we don't use) but maybe it applies to other distros too.,
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bland-article-62755
02/20/2025, 7:45 PMIt does.
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nice-businessperson-14225
02/20/2025, 8:01 PMIm having trouble seeing how I could point rancher to use this template
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