Cloud-Init

Ubuntu provides several methods to automatically install Ubuntu on systems. This article will describe the method with an Autoinstall file to automatically make the base setup of the system. Introduction When setting up VMs based on Ubuntu, I often go through the same setup steps. Naturally, I do this with Ansible. However, there’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario: to manage the system with Ansible, a defined user must exist, along with an SSH key.