Knife ec2 instance create --user-data (HELP!)

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi all

I asked on IRC but there seems to be a flood of chat about the new version
of chef ATM.

I’m trying to follow the datastax launch guide:

http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/install/install_ami

This guide follows along using the actual ec2 console, not chef. I’m
trying to replicate this where they specify “user data” is “raw text” - is
there a way to do this same thing with the --user-data option to the
ec2 plugin?

Any examples?