[13:26] <falcojr> paride , holmanb , I commented on the PR yesterday https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1160#issuecomment-1088061242
[13:28] <falcojr> akutz: "Can someone confirm that only the Photon distro uses this renderer and other distros that use systemd use the netplan renderer?" Yes, this is likely true
[13:34] <paride> falcojr, replied there\
[14:22] <Sh4dowmonk> Hi, can I run the user data as an existing user "installer" from my AMI and not the default user "cloud-user"?
[14:32] <minimal> Sh4dowmonk: the user-data is processed by cloud-init running as the "root" user. What are you trying to achieve?
[14:47] <Sh4dowmonk> I am trying to use user data to start the installation process of our software on the AMI.
[14:47] <Sh4dowmonk> On premise we used root user, but now we have introduced a new special user "installer" which does only installation.
[15:43] <minimal> Sh4dowmonk: I guess you could use "write_files:" to create a shell script that uses sudo/doas to execute something as the required user, and use "run_cmd:" to trigger it
[15:46] <Sh4dowmonk> minimal: thank you! I'll try that.
[17:45] <akutz> falcojr: thanks for the confirmation. I've reached out to the author of that renderer directly on internal Slack to see what his thoughts are on me submitting a patch.