Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2018

Cloud-init is the software that runs in a container, virtual machine or bare metal system to turn a stock image into a customized running instance. It interacts with the cloud platform configure system networking, block devices and filesystem setup, initialize ssh host keys, install packages, execute user provided code and more.

A recent focus of cloud-init development has been network configuration and event response. The first target will be network configuration in response to events from the cloud platform such has hotplug or metadata update. From there, the goal is to extend it to cover general guest agent needs.

Come and learn more about cloud-init, and how you can make it work for you whether you are a cloud platform provider or user.