oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/console
Specify cloud-init user-data via `textarea`
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- TypeScript
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Description
In https://github.com/oxidecomputer/console/issues/800, a file upload input was added to receive a user's cloud-init user-data. This issue requests improving this flow with a textarea so that users can paste in user-data without needing to create and upload a file. This was briefly discussed in https://github.com/oxidecomputer/console/issues/800#issuecomment-1895534344.
One could argue both for and against this feature, as adding it adds complexity and keeping it out adds friction, but the major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean) all have the ability to specify user-data via a textarea. It would be nice for user consistency if we did.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the existing cloud-init file-upload flow described in issue 800 and locating the current user-data input in the console. Check how the submitted value is passed through the instance-creation flow; done means users can paste user-data in a textarea while the existing upload path remains usable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100