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Add --url flag to ec2-metadata to override metadata-server#39

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Add --url flag to ec2-metadata to override metadata-server#39
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This is useful for situations where you want to use a mock metadata server, such as https://github.com/aws/amazon-ec2-metadata-mock

This also allows to simulate EC2 environments locally, using https://github.com/retpolanne/cloud-vm-sim for example.

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Add --url flag to override METADATA_BASEURL so that one can use another metadata server instead of the default one.

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Add --url flag to override METADATA_BASEURL so that one can use another
metadata server instead of the default one.

This is useful for situations where you want to use a mock metadata
server, such as https://github.com/aws/amazon-ec2-metadata-mock

This also allows to simulate EC2 environments locally, using
https://github.com/retpolanne/cloud-vm-sim for example.

Signed-off-by: Anne Macedo <retpolanne@posteo.net>
Check imds after getting the metadata baseurl from the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Anne Macedo <retpolanne@posteo.net>
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