Where to find logs for a cloud-init user-data script?

Question

I\'m initializing spot instances running a derivative of the standard Ubuntu 13.04 AMI by pasting a shell script into the user-data field.

This works. The script runs. B

Answer 1

You could create a cloud-config file (with "#cloud-config" at the top) for your userdata, use runcmd to call the script, and then enable output logging like this:

output: {all: '| tee -a /var/log/cloud-init-output.log'}