How to disable cloud-init#
One may wish to disable cloud-init to ensure that it doesn’t do anything on subsequent boots. Some parts of cloud-init may run once per boot otherwise.
There are three cross-platform methods of disabling cloud-init
.
Method 1: text file#
To disable cloud-init, create the empty file
/etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
. During boot the operating system’s init
system will check for the existence of this file. If it exists, cloud-init will
not be started.
Example:
$ touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
Method 2: kernel commandline#
To disable cloud-init, add cloud-init=disabled
to the kernel commandline.
Example (using GRUB2 with Ubuntu):
$ echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cloud-init=disabled"' >> /etc/default/grub
$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg
Method 3: environment variable#
To disable cloud-init, pass the environment variable
KERNEL_CMDLINE=cloud-init=disabled
into each of cloud-init’s
processes.
Example (using systemd):
$ echo "DefaultEnvironment=KERNEL_CMDLINE=cloud-init=disabled" >> /etc/systemd/system.conf