Comment by ccheshirecat

That's an excellent point, and you were 100% right. It was a major gap in our initial MVP. Your feedback (and similar comments) pushed us to prioritize this immediately. I'm happy to say we've already shipped full user-data and vendor-data support for cloud-init. You can now pass it in directly via the web UI during VM creation, or via our CLI/API. We wanted to make sure it was properly implemented before announcing it widely, but you called it out perfectly. Thanks for the push, this kind of feedback is exactly what we need to make the platform genuinely useful.