Cloud-init official project upstream as of 11/2019

This repository is also mirrored to https://launchpad.net/cloud-init

Cloud-init is the industry standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization. It is supported across all major public cloud providers, provisioning systems for private cloud infrastructure, and bare-metal installations.

Cloud instances are initialized from a disk image and instance data:

Cloud metadata
User data (optional)
Vendor data (optional)

Cloud-init will identify the cloud it is running on during boot, read any provided metadata from the cloud and initialize the system accordingly. This may involve setting up the network and storage devices to configuring SSH access key and many other aspects of a system. Later on the cloud-init will also parse and process any optional user or vendor data that was passed to the instance.

Getting involved

All contributions welcome! Submit code and docs by following our hacking guide

Getting help

Having trouble? We would like to help!

Ask a question in the #cloud-init IRC channel on Freenode
Join and ask questions on the cloud-init mailing list
Find a bug? Report bugs on Launchpad

Recent cloud-init upstream releases

Upstream release version	Release date
19.4	planned (2019-12-XX)
19.3	2019-11-05
19.2	2019-07-17
19.1	2019-05-10

Cloud-init distribution and cloud support

Note: Each linux distribution and cloud tracks cloud-init upstream updates at a different pace. If your distribution or cloud doesn't contain a recent cloud-init, suggest or propose an upgrade with your distribution of choice.

Supported OSes	Supported Public Clouds	Supported Private Clouds
Ubuntu SLES/openSUSE RHEL/CentOS Fedora Gentoo Linux Debian ArchLinux FreeBSD	Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Softlayer Rackspace Public Cloud IBM Cloud Digital Ocean Bigstep Hetzner Joyent CloudSigma Alibaba Cloud OVH OpenNebula Exoscale Scaleway CloudStack AltCloud SmartOS	Bare metal installs OpenStack LXD KVM Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS)

Daily Package Builds

We host daily Ubuntu Daily PPAs that build package for each Ubuntu series from tip of cloud-init.

For CentOS 7/8 we publish to a couple of COPR build repos: