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Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition
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Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition

by Vedran Dakic, Humble Devassy Chirammal, Prasad Mukhedkar, Anil Vettathu
October 2020
Beginner to intermediate
686 pages
15h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9: Customizing a Virtual Machine with cloud-init

Customizing a virtual machine often seems simple enough – clone it from a template; start; click a couple of Next buttons (or text tabs); create some users, passwords, and groups; configure network settings... That might work for a virtual machine or two. But what happens if we have to deploy two or three hundred virtual machines and configure them? All of a sudden, we're faced with a mammoth task – and it's a task that will be prone to errors if we do everything manually. We're wasting precious time while doing that instead of configuring them in a much more streamlined, automated fashion. That's where cloud-init comes in handy, as it can customize our virtual machines, install software ...

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