I have a cloud-init file that sets up all requirements for our AWS instances, and part of those requirements is formating and mounting an EBS volume. The issue is that on some instances volume atta...

Context I am using the https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Amazon+EC2+Plugin for jenkins which allows me to dynamically provision new cloud instances as build slaves in AWS EC2. I am launchin...

I want to create instances in Openstack that will have Docker in them already installed prior to ssh to them. So naturally I got interested in Cloud-init technology because it allows us to in...

I have some cloudinit scripts to execute when my AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance starts up. I want to setup GIT config variables, with the code below. #cloud-config runcmd: - [ sh, -c, "git config --glo...

I am starting with Terraform. I am trying to make it set a friendly hostname, instead of the usual ip-10.10.10.10 that AWS uses. However, I haven't found how to do it. I tried using provisioners, ...

I am trying to add a crontab so that I can get the cloudwatch metrics of diskspace used and disk space utilization every 5 minutes through a user data script. Below is my user-data script: #!/bin...

Wondering if anyone knows of a validator that can validate cloud-init config similar to this. We tried it and it gives a bunch of errors that are not applicable e.g., it does not recognize package_...

cloud-init is package performing various configurations on a virtual machine on first boot. You have to configure a file with your config, and throw it at your VM then you virtualize it. But how e...

I have an EC2 instance running an AMI based on the Amazon Linux AMI. Like all such AMIs, it supports the cloud-init system for running startup scripts based on the User Data passed into every insta...

I running the Ubuntu 18.04 cloud image and trying to configure networking through cloud-init. For some reason it is ignoring my networking when I try to assign a static IP and just falls back to us...

I am new to cloud-init, my final goal is to run an R script each time an EC2 Spot Instance becomes active, but in order to test it I created an on-demand Ubuntu 12.04 instance and created a simple ...

I am trying to run cloud init as a different user than root, because of permissions problem when using git. Is there such a way?

Recently I've gotten Cloud-Init to work by mounting my config in an image. This is all fine, it works. If I break the config, it tells me. What it doesn't tell me is why I'm not allowed to log on. ...

I'm writing a CloudFormation template and I'm trying to debug the user-data script I provide in the template. How can I run the cloud-init manually and make it perform the same actions it does when...

I am using openstack to create a VM using 'nova boot' command. My image is cloud-init enabled. I pass a --user-data script which is a bash shell format for cloud-init to run during VM boot up time....

How do I send cloud-init script to a gcp instance using terraform? Documentation is very sparse around this topic.

I am configuring an OpenStack box using cloud-init/cloud-config. I intend to wait until it is fully configured before I start using it. This is not all that hard to do using some marker file or de...

In my Terraform AWS Docker Swarm module I use cloud-init to initialize the EC2 instance. However, Terraform says the resource is ready before cloud-init finishes. Is there a way of making it wait f...

I've created the following systemd unit in the cloud-init file: - path: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker-compose.service owner: root:root permissions: '0755' content: | [Unit...

Defining userdata for instances in AWS seems really useful for doing all kinds of bootstrap-type actions. Unfortunately, I have to use a custom CentOS AMI that didn't originate from one of the prov...

When using cloud init's #cloud-config to create configuration files, how would I go about using variables to populate values? In my specific case I'd like to autostart EC2 instances as preconfigu...

i'm having trouble in setting up a full headless install for Ubuntu Server Focal (ARM) on a Raspberry pi 4 using cloud init config. The whole purpose of doing this is to simplify the SD card ...

my user-data script #! set -e -x echo `whoami` su root yum update -y touch ~/PLEASE_WORK.txt which is fed in from the command: ec2-run-instances ami-05355a6c -n 1 -g mongo-group -k mykey -f mys...

I want my setup of openstack to work such that when I boot a new instance, 8.8.8.8 should be added to dns-nameservers. This is my old /etc/resolv.conf (in the new VM which was spawned in openstack...

I have a script that runs at boot (via rc.local) and sets my hostname based on the instance name it queries from the AWS CLI. It works, and at the end of the boot log it says " login:" At figured ...