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Introduction to cloud-init

Introduction to cloud-init - Linux Tutorial

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Introduction to cloud-init

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- On a small scale, it's easy to have a VM installed with an OS and manually configured. Then if you want another one you can clone it. Creating the new VM was easy. We can issue commands to the hypervisor to clone a new virtual machine whether we're using KVM, XenServer, VirtualBox or another hypervisor. Which command we use is dependent on the hypervisor so we won't spend any more time discussing that. However, once your VM infrastructure grows you'll want to have configurations or recipes that create the VMs you desire based on your needs. Maintaining a golden image for every single server type is not sustainable. The first step to creating a specific use VM on the fly would be to create a new bare VM. This would add the virtual hardware configured such as memory, disk and network card including MAC address. The next step would be to bootstrap it. This is where you provide an installation source and other…

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