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Save a script for new servers

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A saved script is a cloud-config document you keep in your account. When you order a server you pick it, and the server runs it on its first boot. It saves you pasting the same setup every time.

Save one

  1. Open Compute tools in the console.
  2. Choose New script.
  3. Give it a name, and a description if you like.
  4. Paste the document. It starts with #cloud-config. See Your own cloud-init for what it can hold.
  5. Choose Save script.

Use it

  1. Order a server as usual.
  2. Open Advanced deployment options and switch on Cloud-init.
  3. Under Start from a saved script, pick yours. The document appears in the field below; change it for this one server if you need to.

The name of the server and the SSH keys you chose are put on top of the document, so a script cannot lock you out of your own server.

Change or delete it

Choose Edit or Delete next to the script under Compute tools. A change applies to servers you order afterwards. Servers that already ran the script keep what it did; it runs once, on the first boot.