When I start a linux server with Cloud-init, I have a few scripts in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/ and they run in reverse alphabetical order
# ll /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Dec 10 12:38 00-cloudinit-lifecycle-hook.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2120 Jun 1 2021 05_logging.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 590 Oct 26 17:55 10_aws_yumvars.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Dec 1 18:22 20_amazonlinux_repo_https.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 586 Dec 10 12:38 50-cloudinit-tomcat.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 585 Dec 10 12:40 60-cloudinit-newrelic.cfg
The last to execute is 00-cloudinit-lifecycle-hook.cfg, in which I complete the lifecycle for the Auto Scaling Group with a CONTINUE. The ASG fails if it doesn't receive this signal after a given time out.
The issue is that even if there's an error in 50-cloudinit-tomcat.cfg, it still runs 00-cloudinit-lifecycle-hook.cfg instead of stopping
How can I ensure cloud-init stops and never reaches the last script? I would like the ASG to never receive the CONTINUE signal if there's any error.
Here are the files:
EC2 instance user-data:
#cloud-config
bootcmd:
- [cloud-init-per, once, "app-volume", mkfs, -t, "ext4", "/dev/nvme1n1"]
mounts:
- ["/dev/nvme1n1", "/app-volume", "ext4", "defaults,nofail", "0", "0"]
merge_how:
- name: list
settings: [append]
- name: dict
settings: [no_replace, recurse_list]
50-cloudinit-tomcat.cfg
#cloud-config
merge_how:
- name: list
settings: [append]
- name: dict
settings: [no_replace, recurse_list]
runcmd:
- "#!/bin/bash -e"
- set +x
- echo ' '
- echo '# ===================================='
- echo '# Tomcat Cloud Init '
- echo '# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/'
- echo '# ===================================='
- echo ' '
- echo '#===================================='
- echo '# Run Ansible'
- echo '#===================================='
- echo ' '
- set -x
- ansible-playbook /opt/init-config/tomcat/tomcat-config.yaml
when I run ansible-playbook /opt/init-config/tomcat/tomcat-config.yaml directly in the instance I get an error, and I know it returns 2
ansible-playbook /opt/init-config/tomcat/tomcat-config.yaml #shows errors
echo $? # shows "2"
00-cloudinit-lifecycle-hook.cfg
#cloud-config
merge_how:
- name: list
settings: [append]
- name: dict
settings: [no_replace, recurse_list]
runcmd:
- "/opt/lifecycles/lifecycle-hook-continue.sh"
An alternative I can think of, is to send a ABANDON signal instead of CONTINUE as soon as there's en error in one of the cloud-init config. But I can't find in the documentation on to define if there's an error
