Execute User Data After the Initial Launch of Your EC2 Instance
- By default, user data scripts and cloud-init directives run only during the first boot cycle when an instance is launched. However, you can configure your user data script and cloud-init directives with a mime multi-part file. A mime multi-part file allows your script to override how frequently user data is executed in the cloud-init package. Then, the file executes the user script.
- Launch a new EC2 instance using below bootstrap, please refer the link for help!
#!/bin/bash sudo su yum install httpd -y service httpd start chkconfig httpd on echo "First Boot" > /var/www/html/index.html
- Above bash script will initial a webserver with index.html, which can be browsed in browser using Public IP of EC2 instance
- Now stop your EC2 instance by selecting it > Action > Instance state > Stop
- Now from Actions menu > Instance Setting > View/Change User Data
- Input below Bash script in input box & save it
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="//" MIME-Version: 1.0 --// Content-Type: text/cloud-config; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cloud-config.txt" #cloud-config cloud_final_modules: - [scripts-user, always] --// Content-Type: text/x-shellscript; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="userdata.txt" #!/bin/bash /bin/echo "Second Boot" > /var/www/html/index.html
- Now start your EC2 instance by going Actions > Instance State > Start
- To verify if the bash script execute again or not, can open Public IP of EC2 instance. Voila! New Webpage!