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cloud-init

Command line tool for managing cloud instance initialization. More information: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io.
  • Display the status of the most recent cloud-init run:
    cloud-init status
  • Wait for cloud-init to finish running and then report status:
    cloud-init status --wait
  • List available top-level metadata keys to query:
    cloud-init query --list-keys
  • Query cached instance metadata for data:
    cloud-init query {{dot_delimited_variable_path}}
  • Clean logs and artifacts to allow cloud-init to rerun:
    cloud-init clean

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