1CLOUD-INIT(1) General Commands Manual CLOUD-INIT(1)
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6 cloud-init - Cloud instance initialization
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10 cloud-init [-h] [-d] [-f FILES] [--force] [-v] {init,modules,sin‐
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15 Cloud-init provides a mechanism for cloud instance initialization.
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20 Generally, this command is not normally meant to be run directly by the
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88 Copyright (C) 2020 Canonical Ltd. License GPL-3 or Apache-2.0
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92 Full documentation at: <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io>
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