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Warning

Deprecated in version 23.2. Use DataSourceConfigDrive instead.

The DigitalOcean datasource consumes the content served from DigitalOcean’s instance metadata service. This instance metadata service serves information about the running droplet via http over the link local address169.254.169.254. The API endpoints are fully described in the DigitalOceanmeta-data documentation.

Configuration¶

DigitalOcean’s datasource can be configured as follows:

datasource: DigitalOcean: retries: 3 timeout: 2

• retries
  Specifies the number of times to attempt connection to the instance metadata service.
• timeout
  Specifies the timeout (in seconds) to wait for a response from the instance metadata service.