Cloud-init
- Refer Here for the official docs.
- Cloud-init is the industry standard for executing a script on linux vms during first boot.
- Refer Here for cloud config examples
- Cloud-init config file is a yaml file
#cloud-config
packages_update: true
packages:
- apache2
- openjdk-8-jdk
- tomcat8
- Create an ubuntu 18 instance and in the advanced tab enter the above mentioned config file
- Create an instance and verify if the above mentioned packages are installed or not
- Refer Here for official documenation on cloud-init support in azure
- Exercise: Try to findout if we can use cloud-init on Windows instance in Azure
Azure VM Extensions
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Create one linux vm with the following steps to be changed in Advanced tab
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We can run extensions on Windows Instances also
