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Background This post demonstrates how to customize Ubuntu LXD cloud image metadata, templates and rootfs in LXD to provide custom cloud-init datasources or meta-data directives on first boot. From time to time, the images produced by your favorite vendor don’t quite meet your needs. In this post you will learn:... [Read More]

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From docs to Schema Is there an echo in here? When looking through cloud-config modules it seemed there was a lot of boilerplate documentation and logic in each module to document and validate accepted configuration keys for the module. [Read More]

Stardate: 3 days after Father’s Day I’m sleep deprived and exhausted from the amazing Father’s Day present my wife and I got this year. With the joys of parenthood, comes the thought that if I don’t write something down somewhere, I’ll forget it or misplace it. That thought will forever... [Read More]