Vcenter Guest CloudinitConfiguration

Guest customization settings to customize a Linux guest operating system with raw cloud-init data.

The Vcenter Guest CloudinitConfiguration schema contains settings that configure a Linux machine with raw cloud-init data. See https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest about cloud-init.

This schema was added in vSphere API 7.0.3.0.

JSON Example

{
    "metadata": "string",
    "userdata": "string"
}

string

metadata

Required

Metadata includes the network, instance id and hostname that cloud-init processes to configure the virtual machine. It is in json or yaml format. The max size of the metadata is 524288 bytes. See https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/ovf.html about supported meta data formats.

This property was added in vSphere API 7.0.3.0.

string

userdata

Optional

Userdata is the user customized content that cloud-init processes to configure the virtual machine. See https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/format.html about user data formats. See https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html# about user data modules. The max size of the userdata is 524288 bytes.

This property was added in vSphere API 7.0.3.0.

If missing or null, no cloud-init user data will be used as part of the cloud-init configuration.