Cloud-Init 0.7.9 or later¶

Add the following key-value pair with an empty line above and below it:
```
no_ssh_fingerprints: true
```
Set ssh_pwauth. This parameter specifies whether to enable password login in SSH mode. The value true indicates that the password login in SSH mode is enabled, and the value false or 0 indicates that the function is disabled.
```
ssh_pwauth: true
```
Set disable_root to false. This parameter specifies whether to allow SSH login of user root.
```
disable_root: false
```
Add preserve_hostname: false.
```
preserve_hostname: false
```

(Optional) Use the number sign (#) to comment out the following statements (skip this step if the statements do not exist):

mount_default_fields: [~, ~, 'auto', 'defaults,nofail', '0', '2']
resize_rootfs_tmp: /dev
ssh_deletekeys:   0

Modify ssh_genkeytypes as follows (add it if it does not exist):
```
ssh_genkeytypes: ['rsa', 'dsa']
```
Modify syslog_fix_perms as follows (add it if it does not exist):
```
syslog_fix_perms: root:root
```

Add the following statements:

network:
   config: disabled
datasource_list: [ OpenStack ]
datasource:
  OpenStack:
    metadata_urls: ['http://169.254.169.254']
    max_wait: 120
    timeout: 10
    retries: 5

(Optional) In /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg, set apply_network_config to False.
This step is only for Cloud-Init 18.3 or later.
Add the following content after - final-message in cloud_final_modules:
```
- power-state-change
```

Modify system_info as follows:

system_info:
   distro: rhel
   default_user:
     name: root   // User name for OS login
      lock_passwd: False   // True indicates that login using a password is disabled. Note that some OSs use value 1 to disable the password login.

In the preceding command, change the value of distro based on the OS, such as distro: sles, distro: rhel, distro: ubuntu, distro: debian, and distro: fedora.

For versions other than cloud-init 23.x, modify their source code.

Source code path: xxx/xxx/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceOpenStack.py

Add the return True line.
Delete the line (DataSourceOpenStackLocal, (sources.DEP_FILESYSTEM,)).

 def detect_openstack(accept_oracle=False):
     """Return True when a potential OpenStack platform is detected."""
     return True
     if not util.is_x86():
         return True  # Non-Intel cpus don't properly report dmi product names
     product_name = util.read_dmi_data('system-product-name')
......
 # Used to match classes to dependencies
 datasources = [
     (DataSourceOpenStack, (sources.DEP_FILESYSTEM, sources.DEP_NETWORK)),
 ]

For cloud-init 23.x or later, modify their source code.

Source code path: xxx/xxx/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceOpenStack.py. Delete the line (DataSourceOpenStackLocal, (sources.DEP_FILESYSTEM,)).

# Used to match classes to dependencies
datasources = [
    (DataSourceOpenStack, (sources.DEP_FILESYSTEM, sources.DEP_NETWORK)),
]

Source code path: xxx/xxx/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py. Change return_value = self._check_and_get_data() to return_value = self._get_data().

def get_data(self) -> bool:
    """Datasources implement _get_data to setup metadata and userdata_raw.
    Minimally, the datasource should return a boolean True on success.
    """
    self._dirty_cache = True
    return_value = self._get_data()
    if not return_value:
        return return_value
    self.persist_instance_data()
    return return_value

(Optional) For SUSE 12 SP1 and SUSE 12 SP2, modify [Unit] in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/cloud-init-local.service file.

vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/cloud-init-local.service

Ensure that [Unit] is configured as follows:

[Unit]
Description=Initial cloud-init job (pre-networking)
DefaultDependencies=no
Wants=network-pre.target
Wants=local-fs.target
After=local-fs.target
Before=network-pre.target
Before=shutdown.target
Before=basic.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target
# Other distros use Before=sysinit.target. There is not a clearly identified
# reason for usage of basic.target instead.

(Optional) For Ubuntu 16.04, run the following command to configure the OpenStack source:
dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init
Run the vim /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg command to open the configuration file and check whether the items are correctly configured in the file.
```
# to update this file, run dpkg-reconfigure cloud-init
datasource_list: [ OpenStack ]
~
~
~
```
If the configuration file content is consistent with the preceding command output, the configuration is successful.

last updated: 2025-08-29 16:30 UTC - commit: 6208da1405127a92288439a4036df6cbd1f73d26