Cloudinit

At the 2019 edition of HashiConf EU in Amsterdam, I gave a talk entitled “CloudInit: The Good Parts” - a surprisingly long talk given the subject matter! I’ve had a number of requests for the slide deck, which I’m posting here along with the video from the event.

Part of the boot process for Linux instances across many cloud systems (including AWS and OpenStack) is the Cloud-Init system, part of the Ubuntu project. It describes itself as “the defacto multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance”. It has a wide range of capabilities, and is an important yet under-used piece of infrastructure.