Explanation

Our explanatory and conceptual guides are written to provide a better understanding of how cloud-init works. They enable you to expand your knowledge and become better at using and configuring cloud-init.

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• Introduction to cloud-init
• User data formats
• About the cloud-config file
• Configuration sources
• Boot stages
• First boot determination
• Manual cache cleaning
• Events and updates
• Instance metadata
• Vendor data
• Security
• Performance
• Kernel command line
• Failure states
• Exported errors
• Why did cloud-init status start returning exit code 2?