cloud-init Command Examples

Command line tool for managing cloud instance initialization. More information: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io.

• Display the status of the most recent cloud-init run:

cloud-init status

• Wait for cloud-init to finish running and then report status:

cloud-init status --wait

• List available top-level metadata keys to query:

cloud-init query --list-keys

• Query cached instance metadata for data:

cloud-init query {{dot_delimited_variable_path}}

• Clean logs and artifacts to allow cloud-init to rerun:

cloud-init clean