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Adds the following changes: - Renames all the RST files in the user-guide folder to use hyphens instead of underscores; - Adds redirects to the renamed files to .htaccess. Change-Id: Ic5f1a90421add35d001363cd39bada0b56a04d7f Implements: blueprint consistency-file-rename
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Provide user data to instances
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A user data file is a special key in the metadata service that holds a
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file that cloud-aware applications in the guest instance can access. For
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example, one application that uses :term:`user data` is the
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`cloud-init <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit>`__ system,
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which is an open-source package from Ubuntu that is available on various
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Linux distributions and which handles early initialization of a cloud
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instance.
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You can place user data in a local file and pass it through the
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``--user-data <user-data-file>`` parameter at instance creation.
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.. code-block:: console
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$ nova boot --image ubuntu-cloudimage --flavor 1 --user-data mydata.file
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