On 2023-08-11 19:30:14 +0200 (+0200), Arnaud wrote:
> IIRC, when you disable dhcp on the network, modern cloud-init
> (like debian 12/Ubuntu 22.04) will configure the IP on your
> instance at boot time after doing a metadata network request.
>
> That just works, but it depends on OS.
[...]

Cloud-init can also get network configuration from a mounted
configdrive (if you pass the right server create options so it gets
one), and skip requesting metadata over the network that way.
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Jeremy Stanley