Availability¶
Below outlines the current availability of cloud-init
across
distributions and clouds, both public and private.
Note
If a distribution or cloud does not show up in the list below, contact
them and ask for images to be generated using cloud-init
!
Distributions¶
Cloud-init
has support across all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD,
NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD:
AlmaLinux
Alpine Linux
AOSC OS
Amazon Linux 2023
Arch Linux
CentOS
CloudLinux
Container-Optimized OS
Debian
DragonFlyBSD
EuroLinux
Fedora
FreeBSD
Gentoo Linux
MarinerOS
MIRACLE LINUX
NetBSD
OpenBSD
openEuler
OpenCloudOS
OpenMandriva
Photon OS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Rocky Linux
SLES/openSUSE
TencentOS
Ubuntu
Virtuozzo
Note
While BSD variants are not typically referred to as “distributions”,
cloud-init
has an abstraction to account for operating system differences,
which can be found in the cloudinit/distros/ directory.
Clouds¶
Cloud-init
provides support across a wide ranging list of execution
environments in the public cloud:
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Softlayer
Rackspace Public Cloud
IBM Cloud
DigitalOcean
Bigstep
Hetzner
Joyent
CloudSigma
Alibaba Cloud
OVH
OpenNebula
Exoscale
Scaleway
CloudStack
AltCloud
SmartOS
UpCloud
Vultr
Zadara Edge Cloud Platform
3DS Outscale
Akamai
Additionally, cloud-init
is supported on these private clouds:
Bare metal installs
OpenStack
LXD
KVM
Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS)
VMware