Cloud-init

cloud-init is a package that contains utilities for early initialization of cloud instances. It is needed in images that are built with the intention of being launched in cloud environments like OpenStack, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud etc.

• Configuration file: /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit

multipass launch --name ubuntu-lts-custom --cloud-init cloud-config.yaml

Activities

• Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cloud-init

Related terms

• growpart

See also

• Ubuntu, Ubuntu releases, snap, MAAS, PPA, Canonical Livepatch, Ubuntu Advantage, netplan, multipass, Landscape, Subiquity, lsb_release, Ubuntu MATE, Wayland