[Blueprint servercloud-1311-cloud-init] cloud-init

[Scott Moser]

Blueprint changed by Scott Moser:

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A cloud vendor would like to have some code executed on first boot of nodes in order to integrate an ubuntu cloud image into their environment.

James' launches many instances of the Ubuntu cloud image.  Those
instances immediately install many packages.  He'd like for the
installation to occur more quickly and doesn't care about instances
until that state is reached.  'Eatmydata' improves this scenario by
removing interim fsync and sync calls.

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Cloud-init now supports consumption of 'vendor-data' that is available via an openstack installation.  This allows the OpenStack provider to provide some data in the meta-data service that will be acted on by cloud-init much the same way as user-data.  The vendor can then have packages installed or an instance enroll itself in the infrastructure.

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cloud-init
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-1311-cloud-init