Chris Paquin

AI, Virtualization, Containers, Infrastructure, Linux

Tag: cloud-init

  • How to disable Cloud-Init in a RHEL Cloud Image

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    So this one is pretty simple. However, I found a lot of misinformation along the way, so I figured that I would jot the proper (and most simple) process here.

    Symptoms: a RHEL (or variant) VM that takes a very long time to boot. On the VM console, you can see the following output while the VM boot process is stalled and waiting for a timeout. Note that the message below has nothing to do with cloud init, but its the output that I have most often seen on the console while waiting for a VM to boot.

    [106.325574} random: crng init done

    Note that I have run into this issue in both OpenStack (when booting from external provider networks) and in KVM.

    Upon initial boot of the VM, run the command below.

    touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled

    Seriously, that’s it. No need to disable or remove cloud-init services. See reference.