[16:46] <deostroll> Hello world. Can anyone help me figure out cloud-init?
[16:48] <deostroll> I was playing around with oracle virtualbox, and, while provisioning an ubuntu VM (from iso) I was expecting cloud-init to help me configure the OS the way I want. I couldn't achieve this. 
[16:51] <deostroll> However, one popular tutorial on the web, I found that from an already provisioned VM one does some cloud-init related activities ( like create related artifacts in /etc/cloud). Once done, I guess, one can take the disk and attach it to another VM and expect the OS to be configured properly. 
[16:51] <deostroll> Is this the general idea?
[16:55] <dbungert> deostroll: generally this converstation should be taken to #ubuntu-server.  if you do want to go the iso install route, then https://canonical-subiquity.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/howto/autoinstall-quickstart.html may help.  If you don't particuarly want the ISO install route then you have other options.