| beantaxi | I'm looking for a way to truly rerun cloud-init as though it is running for the first time. There are some docs that come close here -> https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/rerun_cloud_init.html, as well as many outdated SO suggestions that come close as well | 00:50 |
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| beantaxi | But my use case is "I've created a new VM or VPS with a 3rd party provider, and their cloud-init support is broken, or I couldn't figure it out, or they don't support cloud-init at all, and instead of spending an indefinite amount of time sorting that out, I'd rather just invoke a cloud-init feature and be done" | 00:52 |
| beantaxi | The docs linked above come with a blanket warning of "Making cloud-init run again may be destructive and must never be done on a production system. " so I unforunately can't use any of their suggestions. Perhaps what I am asking for constitutes a feature request | 00:53 |
| minimal | beantaxi: "or they don't support cloud-init at all" - then if cloud-init ran before I assume it selected the "None" DataSource. What DataSource would you expect to use if you re-run cloud-init "from scratch" and how would you provide the meta-info/network-config/user-data ? | 19:48 |
| minimal | beantaxi: "their cloud-init support is broken" - depending on how exactly it is broken then how would you fix it? | 19:49 |
| minimal | beantaxi: have you tried following the cloud-init docs you linked to? if so, did it not work? and if so, what went wrong? | 19:50 |
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