heat_template_version: 2014-10-16 parameters: # Can be overriden via parameter_defaults in the environment node_admin_username: type: string default: heat-admin description: > Uses cloud-init to create an additional user with a known name, in addition to the distro-default user created by the cloud-init default. resources: userdata: type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime properties: parts: - config: {get_resource: user_config} # Note this requires cloud-init >= 0.7.2 ref bug #1100920 user_config: type: OS::Heat::CloudConfig properties: cloud_config: user: {get_param: node_admin_username} outputs: OS::stack_id: value: {get_resource: userdata}