gce-metadata

Credit

Full credit and attribution to http://github.com/akm/ec2-metadata on which this gem is based

Install

$ [sudo] gem install gce-metadata

As ruby library

gce-metadata provides a way to access meta-data and user-data on GCE instance.

GCEMetadata[:instance_id] GCEMetadata['instance_id'] GCEMetadata[:'instance-id'] GCEMetadata['instance-id']

If you want to specify API version, you can get data like this: GCEMetadata['1.0'][:instance_id]

If you can also get it like this: GCEMetadata['1.0']['meta-data'][:instance_id]

As a command

gce-metadata shows various meta-data and user-data $ gce-metadata

For more detail, type $ gce-metadata -h

Dummy YAML

If you want to access meta-data or user-data not on GCE Instance like on it, make one of these files ./config/gce_metadata.yml ./gce_metadata.yml ~/gce_metadata.yml /etc/gce_metadata.yml

Dummy YAML file must be like output of gce-metadata on GCE instance. You can export it on GCE instance like this: $ gce-medatata > gce_metadata.yml $ cp gce_metadata.yml /path/to/dir/for/non/gce/instance

Or if you don't have GCE instance, you can get an example by $ gce-metadata -d

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.