After cloud-init runs a user data script on the first boot of an EC2 instance, a state file is presumably written so that cloud-init won't run the script again on subsequent reboots. There are cases where I'd like to delete this state file so that the user data script will run again. Where is it?
rm /var/lib/cloud/instances/*/sem/config_scripts_user
Confirmed working on:
For the sake of completeness, if you have a situation where you care to keep track of the fact/possibility that this AMI [had a parent AMI that ...] and they all ran
cloud-init
user data, you can delete only the current semaphore.rm /var/lib/cloud/instance/sem/config_scripts_user
You can also configure your user data to re-run on every boot, instead of removing the state file. You have to use
cloud_final_modules
in your userdata script to re-run the userdata script and for that you have to customise uderdata to have miultiple files in userdata. Example userdata file would be like:This will make userdata script to execute on last step of every boot process. Here only a single line
bin/echo "Hello World" >> /tmp/userdata-test.txt
to be executed, replace this with your shell script that needs to be executed every time a machine is booted.You can put your script in /etc/rc.local, which will run the script on every reboot.
The below script worked perfectly for me after the ubuntu ec2 instance was launched.