Currently azure-init does not support Azure pre-provisioning.
Impact
Lack of support for pre-provisioning will affect adoption as it does not allow the customer to benefit from better reliability and performance gained from Azure pre-provisioning service.
Ideal future situation
Add support for Azure pre-provisioning.
Additional information
Currently the agent does not support Azure pre-provisioning (PPS). Since PPS is not a customer-facing feature, there's no public documentation for it, unfortunately.
cloud-init started supporting Azure PPS since version 18.5. Here's the commit that started the support: link
Other relevant commits as reference:
Network event detection support via netlink: commit
PPS v2 support via nic attach/detach: commit
Current situation
Currently azure-init does not support Azure pre-provisioning.
Impact
Lack of support for pre-provisioning will affect adoption as it does not allow the customer to benefit from better reliability and performance gained from Azure pre-provisioning service.
Ideal future situation
Add support for Azure pre-provisioning.
Additional information
Currently the agent does not support Azure pre-provisioning (PPS). Since PPS is not a customer-facing feature, there's no public documentation for it, unfortunately. cloud-init started supporting Azure PPS since version 18.5. Here's the commit that started the support: link Other relevant commits as reference: Network event detection support via netlink: commit PPS v2 support via nic attach/detach: commit