We’ve just released an update that allows VMWare birds to be pre-configured. This allows customers to deploy them trivially at scale. Our KB article explains how to make use of it, but this post goes deeper under the hood to explore how we made it happen. Automatically Configuring Linux VMs The de facto standard for configuring or customising Cloud virtual machines (e.g. at AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) is cloud-init. Cloud-init works by reading configuration data from datasources outside the VM, …
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