[09:06] <jbg> how can i stop cloud-init from running dhclient? the network is already set up, i just want to use cloud-init to set up some files and users from the cloud-config in userdata
[20:54] <blackboxsw> jbg: in images you should be able to create /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90-disable-networking.cfg which contains "network: {config: disabled}". Outside of disabling cloud-init network config, some datasources have grown the ability to use the EphemeralDHCP context manager to only perform dhclient runs if networking is not already up by checking a connectivity_url to assert that connectivity is up as much as expected.
[20:55] <blackboxsw> jbg: what cloud or platform are you on? Can check via either `cloud-id`, `cloud-init query v1` or `cloud-init status --long`
[20:56] <blackboxsw> jbg: and what distribution are we taking about here?