AWS user_data with Packer

Question

So I\'m trying to use Packer to create an AWS image and specify some user data via user_data_file. The contents of this file needs to be run when the instance boots as it wi

Answer 1

As pointed out by Rickard von Essen the answer was to copy my script to /var/lib/cloud/scripts/per-instance which would execute my script on every instance launched from this AMI.

Alternately you can put your script in /var/lib/cloud/scripts/per-boot if you needed this to happen each time the instance boots.

In my case since I wanted to register the instance with a 3rd party service I only had it execute once per instance creation.