How I Automatically Provision Instances With No Build Pipeline Using Cloud-Init

There are 3 ways to get a blank image to do what you want it to do: Manually, Automating building a reference image, or on boot. On-boot is the fastest way for most operations, and is pretty easy to do. Article with examples: https://danshardware.dev/blog/cloud-i... cloud-init docs: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/l... Follow me on Twitter for devops shit posts:   / danshardware   Need a 30-year IT professional to review your plans? https://danshardware.dev/engagements/ 00:00 - Intro Skit 00:54 - Running commands on startup 01:22 - Using Cloud-Init 01:55 - Reasons to not use cloud-init for setup 02:33 - Debugging 03:32 - Tips For Better Results 04:42 - Outro