Trying to launch an ec2 instance with AWS CDK has been successful, but I am struggling to make the userData persistent so it runs on every boot. Despite searching extensively, I couldn't find any documentation on how to achieve this. The code below works, however, adding
xxx.addCommands('<persist>true</persist>')// Instance details
const ssmaUserData = UserData.forWindows()
ssmaUserData.addCommands('mkdir -p C:/helloworld; ');
const ec2Instance = new ec2.Instance(this, 'SdkInstance', {
vpc,
instanceType: ec2.InstanceType.of(ec2.InstanceClass.T3, ec2.InstanceSize.NANO),
machineImage: awsAMI,
securityGroup: mySecurityGroup,
vpcSubnets: {subnetType: ec2.SubnetType.PUBLIC},
keyName: "EC2Connect",
userData: ssmaUserData
});
I've tried using
ssmaUserData.addOnExitCommands("<persist>true</persist>")Here are the logs indicating that the approach taken does not result in persistence...
2021/03/11 12:56:51Z: Userdata execution begins
2021/03/11 12:56:51Z: Zero or more than one <persist> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 12:56:51Z: Unregistering the persist scheduled task
2021/03/11 12:56:55Z: Zero or more than one <runAsLocalSystem> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 12:56:55Z: Zero or more than one <script> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 12:56:55Z: Zero or more than one <powershellArguments> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 12:56:55Z: <powershell> tag was provided.. running powershell content
2021/03/11 13:08:34Z: Userdata execution begins
2021/03/11 13:08:34Z: Zero or more than one <persist> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 13:08:34Z: Unregistering the persist scheduled task
2021/03/11 13:08:37Z: Zero or more than one <runAsLocalSystem> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 13:08:37Z: Zero or more than one <script> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 13:08:37Z: Zero or more than one <powershellArguments> tag was not provided
2021/03/11 13:08:37Z: <powershell> tag was provided.. running powershell content
2021/03/11 13:08:42Z: Message: The output from user scripts: