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# Blog posts tagged "cloud-init"

#### [Deploy fully configured VMs in minutes on Google Cloud, using gcloud CLI and cloud-init](https://canonical.com/blog/deploy-fully-configured-vms-in-minutes-on-google-cloud-using-gcloud-cli-and-cloud-init)

Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape and other applications

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Cloud and server

#### [Installing NVIDIA GPU Drivers On Oracle Cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/installing-nvidia-drivers-on-oracle-cloud)

In recent reports, it is stated that datacenter-based GPU deployments is the fastest sector, and again, that’s no surprise.  The cloud has had its own incredible growth over the years, and it’s only natural that these two technologies are starting to work in harmony.  As a matter of fact, most public clouds have GPU offerings,

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Cloud and server

#### [Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init](https://canonical.com/blog/cloud-instance-initialisation-with-cloud-init)

Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud… the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer between different c

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Cloud and server

#### [Cloud-init v.18.2: CLI subcommands](https://canonical.com/blog/cloud-init-v-18-2-cli-subcommands)

This article originally appeared on Chad Smith’s blog Cloud-init published its second release of 2018: version 18.2. Among many notable features in the 18.1 release and the 18.2 release, the cloud-init team has been adding some polish to our CLI tooling to make cloud-init easier to inspect and interact with. I will give a run

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Cloud and server

#### [Using cloud-init with Multipass](https://canonical.com/blog/using-cloud-init-with-multipass)

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog cloud-init + Multipass Multipass is a quick and easy way to launch virtual machine instances running Ubuntu. Cloud-init is the standard for customizing cloud instances and now Multipass can also make use of cloud-init to customize an instance during launch. Below is an example of lau

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Cloud and server

#### [HOWTO: Automatically import your public SSH keys into LXD Instances](https://canonical.com/blog/howto-automatically-import-your-public-ssh-keys-into-lxd-instances)

Just another reason why LXD is so awesome…You can easily configure your own cloud-init configuration into your LXD instance profile.In my case, I want cloud-init to automatically ssh-import-id kirkland, to fetch my keys from Launchpad.  Alternat

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Cloud and server

#### [Snappy Ubuntu Core and cloud-init](https://canonical.com/blog/snappy-ubuntu-core-and-cloud-init)

Snappy Ubuntu Core was announced this week.  In yesterday’s blog post (Snappy Ubuntu Core and uvtool) I showed how you can use uvtool to create and manage snappy instances.Now that we’ve got that covered, let’s look deeper into a very cool feature – the ability to customize the instance and automate its startup and configuration.  For exa

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