Chapter 5. Provisioning the Last Mile with Cloud-Init
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Using cloud-init on AWS, Digital Ocean, or OpenStack
- Handling files using cloud-init
- Configuring the server's time zone using cloud-init
- Managing users, keys, and credentials using cloud-init
- Managing repositories and packages using cloud-init
- Running commands during boot using cloud-init
- Configuring CoreOS using cloud-init
- Deploying Chef client from start to finish using cloud-init
- Deploying a remote Docker server using cloud-init
Introduction
Cloud-init is a cloud instance initialization system, standard across most Linux distributions. It's supported by all recent distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, CentOS/Red Hat, Fedora, and more), as well as a variant ...
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