I stumbled upon the following issue if I try to pass command with extra flags like argument (with dash) the cloud-init-per tries to intepret them like their own I don't see option to escape like -- or ---
bootcmd:
- [cloud-init-per, once, mkdir, -m, 0755, -p, /etc/samba]
Result (in /var/log/cloud-init-output.log):
/usr/bin/cloud-init-per: 63: -m: not found
Has anyone found solution for it ? The examples in the doc does not resolve this kind of issues. They use example with mkfs for instance [mkfs.ext4, /dev/vdb]
For instance I tried:
[cloud-init-per, once, ---, mkdir, -m, 0755, -p, /etc/samba]
result:
mkdir: invalid mode ‘493’
0755 is being translated by the yaml parser as a number rather than a string.
#cloud-config
bootcmd:
- [cloud-init-per, once, --, mkdir, -m, "0755", -p, /etc/samba]
should do what you expect.