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There are five stages to a cloud-init boot: You can read more about this on cloud-init official page. It will fail only when there are no default values assigned unlike debian-installer (preseed) which will halt the installation for any and every missing input.Īlthough since this is a new feature so there is a lack of good documentation and debugging can be quite time consuming. By default cloud-init will consider the default value and proceed with the installation.

The one big advantage of using cloud-init over debian-installer is that you don't need to specify answer to each installation option in cloud-init. This is a newly added feature in Ubuntu 20.04 which supersedes the preseeded mode of installation which was performed using debian-installer. Let me give some overview on user-data and cloud-init concept.

In this article I will share step by step instructions to generate user-data file which is required by cloud-init.

Step-6: Copy autoinstall-data from the target node to local host.

Step-5: Bring up a host or VM using cloud-init.

Step-3: Validate the user-data configuration.

Step-2: Create a autoinstall config file (user-data).

What will you need to generate user-data for autoinstall manually?.

Can we generate user-data automatically?.

Which all Linux variants support cloud-init?.

Understanding important cloud-init autoinstall configuration files.