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Cloud Init is multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. Comes installed in the Ubuntu Cloud Images and images available on EC2, Azure, GCE, etc. Have following use cases:
*Setting a default locale
*Setting an instance hostname
*Generating instance SSH private keys
*Adding SSH keys to a user’s .ssh/authorized_keys
*Setting up ephemeral mount points
*Configuring network devices

Command line
<source lang="bash">
cloud-init init #Initializes cloud-init and performs initial modules
cloud-init single #Runs a single module
cloud-init modules #Activates modules using a given configuration key
cloud-init features #Lists defined features
cloud-init clean #Removes logs and artifacts so cloud-init can re-run
cloud-init status #Reports cloud-init status or wait on completion
cloud-init analyze #Analyzes cloud-init logs and data
cloud-init devel #Runs development tools
cloud-init collect-logs #Collects and tar all cloud-init debug info
cloud-init dhclient-hook #Runs the dhclient hook to record network info
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Pio2pio: Created page with "Cloud Init is multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. Comes installed in the Ubuntu Cloud Images and images available on EC2, Azure,..."