[Bug 1012854] [NEW] cloud-config should support simple file writing

[Scott Moser]

Public bug reported:

Many, many times, people have asked the easiest way to get a file into place, and at the moment that is something like:
 cat <<EOF > file
   file content
 EOF

or something to that effect.

It'd be much nicer if cloud-config had an easy way to do that.

files:
 - path: /etc/my.conf
   owner: root:root
   permissions: 0600
   content: |
       content here
 - path: /bin/foo
    owner: root:root
    permissions: 0755
    compression: gzip
   content-b64
      gzip-compressed-base64-encoded-content-here

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cloud-init 0.6.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-24.39-virtual 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 13 20:39:23 2012
Ec2AMI: ami-c250f0ab
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-us-east-1/images-testing/ubuntu-precise-daily-amd64-server-20120609.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1c
Ec2InstanceType: m1.medium
Ec2Kernel: aki-825ea7eb
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: cloud-init
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ec2-images precise

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