Tips and Tricks for Custom Scripts

Please take the following under consideration when developing your script:

  • Make sure the Execution Server can access the script’s raw URL.
  • If the VM is loaded with a user that does not have the necessary permissions but you have a stronger user, pass that user to the App as a parameter to use it in the script as an environment variable (see the Parameters example).
  • If the App’s VM takes a long time to fully load, you may want to adjust the maximum time for the machine to respond by setting the Timeout Minutes attribute on the Custom Script Configuration resource model (in Resource Manager Client’s Resource Families explorer). To use a bash or sh script on a Windows VM, make sure WinRM is configured and loaded automatically to allow the custom script to communicate with that VM. A script for this is provided in CloudShell’s online help.