Comment by therein
3 months ago
The only time I hear or see anything about cloudinit, it is always a problem. Nobody ever said "we don't need worry about that, cloudinit takes care of it".
What good does cloudinit do really?
3 months ago
The only time I hear or see anything about cloudinit, it is always a problem. Nobody ever said "we don't need worry about that, cloudinit takes care of it".
What good does cloudinit do really?
In this particular case cloudinit presence in the story is incidental, delivery mechanism of said config file could have been different.
It's useful for initializing state that could not have been initialized before booting in the target environment. Canonical example, I guess, being ssh server and client keys management, but the list of modules it implements is long.
Provides a moderately-configured starting point for new cloud VM deployments without requiring custom images
> Nobody ever said "we don't need worry about that, cloudinit takes care of it".
Well, why would it come up? You don't need to worry about things you don't need to worry about.