CLOUD-INIT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so cloud-init (that's the manual page for it, the CLOUD-INIT(1) one 💖) is the thing that does cloud instance initialization 🧚

🌸 Quick note on the header

The page is from the General Commands Manual, and the manual name is CLOUD-INIT(1). Iconic. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cloud-init [-h] [-d] [--force] [-v] [SUBCOMMAND]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so Cloud-init gives you a mechanism for cloud instance initialization, and it's giving main character energy ✨ It works by figuring out which cloud platform you're on, reading the cloud meta-data, vendor-data and user-data, and then initializing the instance however you asked. literally so smart 🧠💅

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h, --help — shows the help message and exits. bestie, always start here 🫶
• -v, --version — shows the program's version number and exits 🔥
• --all-stages — INTERNAL 🙈 this runs cloud-init's stages under a single process using a synchronization protocol. it's not meant for CLI usage, so please don't go poking at it 😭

🌈 SUBCOMMANDS 🌈

please check the help output for each subcommand for extra details, flags, and subcommands, periodt 💅

• analyze — analyzes cloud-init logs and data 🔍
• collect-logs — collects and tars all cloud-init debug info 📦
• clean — removes logs and artifacts so cloud-init can re-run 🧹
• devel — runs development tools. see the help output for subcommand details 🛠️
• features — lists defined features ✨
• query — queries standardized instance metadata from the command line 🔎
• schema — validates cloud-config files using jsonschema 💜
• single — manually runs a single module. useful for testing during development 🧪
• status — reports cloud-init status or waits on completion ⏳

🙈 DEPRECATED 🙈

these ones are deprecated, so no cap, don't build your whole vibe on them 💀

• -d, --debug — shows additional pre-action logging (default: False) 🐛
• --force — forces running even if no datasource is found. use at your own risk 😬
• init — initializes cloud-init and executes initial modules 🚀
• modules — activates modules using a given configuration key 🎛️

🍓 EXIT STATUS 🍓

okay so here's how it tells you how things went:

• 0 — Success! 🎉
• 1 — Error. cloud-init failed 💀
• 2 — Recoverable error. cloud-init completed but ran into errors 🥲

🫧 COPYRIGHT 🫧

Copyright (C) 2020 Canonical Ltd. License GPL-3 or Apache-2.0 ⚖️

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

the full documentation lives at <https://docs.cloud-init.io> 📚

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bestie, this page is from CLOUD-INIT(1) in the General Commands Manual, and it's the version from the cloud-init source line 🌸 Last updated... the page itself has the date, go check it, I'm not guessing 💖 love you, mwah 🫶✨