Re: comments on installation instructions

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 07:50:16 +0100, Harold Gutch wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 03:08:34AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:58:01 +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > 
> > > there's a whole man page descripting it - creds_msdos(8). :)
> > 
> > May we should consider something akin to cloud-init but more
> > lightweight?  E.g. we can probably draw some inspiration from Alpine
> > Linux tiny-cloud
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/cloud/tiny-cloud
> > 
> > which is obviously alpine specific, but is indeed tiny and is mostly
> > in shell (used to be all shell, iirc, but has grown a small C program
> > to get values from yaml).
> 
> Does that get its setup from a magic "cloud webserver" running on
> 169.254.169.254:80 or something like that?

Yes and no.  Yes as in that is one possible source of user data.  No
as in that is not *the* only way to get user data.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/datasources/nocloud.html

-uwe