Add host-container user-data setting #1244
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You can set settings.host-containers.NAME.user-data to a valid base64-encoded string to have the (decoded) data placed in a file accessible to the host container at /.bottlerocket/host-containers/NAME/user-data.
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| /// Older versions don't know about the user-data settings; we remove them so that old versions | ||
| /// don't see them and fail deserialization. | ||
| fn backward(&mut self, mut input: MigrationData) -> Result<MigrationData> { |
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Is there any reason to delete the user-data file(s) that might exist?
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I don't think so, but it's an interesting question to leave up for others to consider.
It seems to me that the worst case might be downgrading and still using a host container that understands the user-data file but tries to do something with it that isn't compatible with the older Bottlerocket version..? For example, maybe you're using the user-data to configure a host-container that makes API calls back to the parent, and those calls are no longer valid with the downgraded version. I think, in that case, you would have created an implicit dependency from the container to the host version, and so should remove/downgrade the host container before downgrading Bottlerocket.
I'm hesitant to delete things from host container persistent storage, so I'd like to have a decent reason, or fall back to leaving what (naively) seems to be a harmless file.
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It's a really interesting question and one that has some pretty good arguments both ways. For now I think we should leave the file there.
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I agree, I think it's far enough out there as an edge case that it doesn't justify deleting data from the persistent store.
This is a prerequisite for other upcoming work, but the basic idea is to allow easier customization of host-container agents.
Testing done:
I added this to my instance user data:
Here's the result, the basic functionality of this change:
Invalid base64 data is rejected:
To test the migration, I built a 1.0.4 image from the v1.0.4 tag, updated to a 1.0.5 image based on this branch, re-confirmed that the user-data setting worked, downgraded back to 1.0.4, and confirmed the user-data setting was removed and the host came back up OK.
I confirmed a pod runs OK after downgrade/upgrade cycles.
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