What Can I Do with a Cloud-Init ECS?
Introduction to Cloud-Init
Cloud-Init is an open-source cloud initialization tool. When creating an ECS from an image with Cloud-Init, you can use the user data injection function to inject customized initialization information (for example, setting the ECS login password). You can also configure and manage a running ECS by querying and using metadata. If Cloud-Init is not installed, you cannot configure an ECS. As a result, you can only use the password in the image file to log in to the created ECSs.
Installation Methods
You are advised to install Cloud-Init or Cloudbase-Init on the ECS to be used to create a private image so that new ECSs created from the private image support custom configurations.
- For Windows OSs, download and install Cloudbase-Init.
For how to install Cloudbase-Init, see Installing and Configuring Cloudbase-Init.
- For Linux OSs, download and install Cloud-Init.
For how to install Cloud-Init, see Installing Cloud-Init.
For how to configure Cloud-Init, see Configuring Cloud-Init.
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