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cloud-init — Manage cloud instance initialization. More information: <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Problem

How to use the cloud-init command: Manage cloud instance initialization. More information: <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/cli.html>.

Solution

cloud-init — Manage cloud instance initialization. More information: <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/cli.html>.

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

Code Snippets

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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