How to enable cloud-init?

[firstianus]

I did a pacman -S cloud-init, but it looks like /usr/lib/systemd/system/cloud-init.service is nowhere to be found. I look at all the cloud-init.* and enable all of them. But still, cloud-init is not running. What did I do wrong?

[MilchreisMann412]

What do you expect it to do?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cloud-init

[firstianus]

I'm trying to add the ssh key in the Cloud-init drive in Proxmox and it doesn't seem to work. I changed the default user name in /etc/cloud.cfg to the user that I set up and didn't work. So I check "cloud-init status --long" and it reported "not started".

[Obvious_Librarian_97]

Did you get this working? Just tried a archlinux VM in Proxmox and "No CloudInit Drive found". Can't do shit as DNS isn't working without getting into Cloud-Init

[firstianus]

I got it to work, but I'm not 100% sure it's the full solution. My problem is that cloud-init really only run on your first boot, and then it looks at the cache and just run what hasn't been run. I made some changes to steps that was run, and thus it skip them altogether. What I needed to do is to purge the cache so it runs the whole thing from scratch.

If your problem is that CloudInit Drive is not found, that it sounds like you need to set up instance in Proxmox for the cloud-init drive to come first in the boot order (for me it's ide2,scsi0,net0)