Chapter 3. Red Hat support for cloud-init

ansible

Runs Ansible playbooks

per instance

bootcmd

Runs commands at the early stage of the boot process

per always

ca_certs

Adds CA certificates

per instance

disable_ec2_metadata

Enables or disables the AWS EC2 metadata

per always

disk_setup

Configures simple partition tables and file systems

per instance

final_message

Specifies the output message once cloud-init completes

per always

growpart

Resizes partitions to fill the available disk space

per always

install_hotplug

Installs hot-plug devices

per instance

keys_to_console

Writes fingerprints and keys to the console

per instance

landscape

Installs and configures a landscape client

per instance

locale

Configures the system locale and applies it system-wide

per instance

rh_subscription

Registers a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system

per instance

rightscale_userdata

Adds support for RightScale configuration hooks to cloud-init

per instance

rsyslog

Configures remote system logging using rsyslog

per instance

runcmd

Runs arbitrary commands

per instance

salt_minion

Installs, configures, and starts salt minion

per instance

scripts_per_boot

Runs per boot scripts

per always

scripts_per_instance

Runs per instance scripts

per instance

scripts_per_once

Runs scripts once

per once

scripts_user

Runs user scripts

per instance

scripts_vendor

Runs vendor scripts

per instance

seed_random

Provides random seed data

per instance

set_hostname

Sets hostname and fully qualified domain name (FQDN)

per always

set_passwords

Sets user passwords and enables or disables SSH password authentication

per instance

spacewalk

Configures Spacewalk client

per instance

ssh_authkey_fingerprints

Logs fingerprints of user SSH keys

per instance

ssh_import_id

Imports SSH keys

per instance

ssh

Configures SSH, and host and authorized SSH keys

per instance

timezone

Sets the system time zone

per instance

update_etc_hosts

Updates /etc/hosts

per always

update_hostname

Updates hostname and FQDN

per always

users_groups

Configures users and groups

per instance

write_files

Writes arbitrary files

per instance

yum_add_repo

Adds dnf repository configuration to the system

per always

apt_configure

apt_pipeline

byobu

chef

emit_upstart

grub_dpkg

ubuntu_init_switch