We’ve carried out a metadata service—accessible in beta and powered by the trade commonplace cloud-init—to offer no-install, first-boot configuration administration of cloud situations. 

Cloud-init gives a streamlined configuration file written in YAML that’s universally supported by all main cloud suppliers and may configure particulars together with hostname, locale, SSH key era and ephemeral mount factors. Cloud-init can be utilized along with instruments like Ansible and Salt, and even name bash scripts through the configuration course of.

Beforehand, our prospects relied on StackScripts, or modified bash scripts which might be executed when a newly configured compute occasion boots up. Bash is a normal Linux shell and command language used for scripting and is extra advanced than the YAML configuration utilized in cloud-init. Bash might be troublesome to configure with out error throughout distributions and software program variations, making true portability a problem.

cloud-init, along with being universally supported throughout suppliers, has the power to execute a bash script throughout configuration if extra customization choices are wanted. StackScripts will proceed to be supported along with the metadata service, which provides you extra flexibility.

Open Beta Particulars

Our metadata service is at the moment accessible in open beta in Washington, D.C. and Paris. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS are supported so as to add metadata through the creation course of. Further distributions and places could also be added through the open beta interval.

Getting Began

For brand new sources in Washington, D.C., or Paris, begin by deciding on “Create Linode”, then proceed the create course of by deciding on:

1. Ubuntu 22.04 or Ubuntu 20.04
2. Washington, D.C. or Paris
3. Your compute plan kind, and any desired configurations
4. “Add Consumer Information” (situated beneath SSH keys) to open the drawer

Now you can add the specified information to utilize the metadata beta service. Metadata can be accessible through the API.

Learn our documentation for extra deployment and configuration directions. 

Beta Notifications

The metadata service itself is free. Assets deployed in Washington, D.C. and Paris are topic to plain costs. View pricing.

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