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CLOUD-ID

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NAME

cloud-id - Report the canonical cloud-id for this instance

 

SYNOPSIS

cloud-id [-h] [-j] [-l] [-i <INSTANCE_DATA>]

 

DESCRIPTION

cloud-id is the lowercase name of the cloud datasource discovered.

The cloud-id will be 'not run' when systemd generator has not run yet. The cloud-id will be 'disabled' when cloud-init is disabled or when ds-identify did not find a valid datasource.

See cloud-init status --long for more information.

 

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Show help message and exit

-j, --json
Report all standardized cloud-id information as json

-l, --long
Report extended cloud-id information as tab-delimited string

-i <data>, --instance-data <data>
Path to instance-data.json file. Default is /run/cloud-init/instance-data.json

 

EXIT STATUS

0
On success
1
Due to an error
2
Due to cloud-init in a disabled state. See: cloud-init status --long
3
The cloud-init generator and discovery has not yet run.

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2021 Canonical Ltd. License GPL-3 or Apache-2.0

 

SEE ALSO

Full documentation at: <https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io>

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
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