cloud-init
is absolute cancer. Its code is horrible. It has no documentation at all.
It took me 5 fucking hours to figure out how to properly configure networking on recent
cloud-init
(Ubuntu 16.04 cloud image
) with local datasource.
It's not mentioned anywhere you need to provide dsmode: local
. (but only if you need network-config,
besides that everything is fine; someone below noted that -m
flag does the same thing, good to know) Of course nobody needs documentation for network-config
format
either. (cloudinit/net/__init__.py
is a protip, enjoy the feces dive)
Oh, and by the way - no, it's not possible to provide network-config
to uvt-kvm
without patching shit.
Use -N
flag for cloud-localds for network-config
.
I also was stumped by this but if you delete the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-fake-cloud.cfg (I may have the name wrong slightly) file, Cloud-Init will then respect your user-data network configuration. I came about the solution from following @wintermute000's advice (Neuromancer is my favorite book BTW!) about deleting and re-installing cloud-config and noticed that file is missing when you do that.