Cloud init

[docbobo]

@StefanScherer, I believe cloud-init is not yet integrate in the RPi version. Or is it? In the past, this was the main argument for not doing it for other variants either.

Once we had cloud-init, we could also get rid of some scripts, like e.g. resizing the root fs, if I am not mistaken.

[StefanScherer]

Thanks @midnightconman this is a great idea.

@docbobo Correct, it is not yet integrated in the RPi version. Reasons are lack of time to do so and how we should do this breaking change.

• Keeping device-init as a boot service but without the device-init.yaml so people used to device-init.yaml still could flash and use newer SD cards.
• Add a default user-data file for cloud-init with the standard user pirate + standard password
• Provide only a user-data.example file with password login, but suggest adding SSH pubkey. Having no user-data file will brick users not knowing the details. But would give more security but less convenience.

[midnightconman]

Thanks everyone... those are all very valid concerns.

What about a hybrid solution... maybe in device-init.yaml we can run cloud-init init --force or manually run cloud-init service systemctl start cloud-init-local.service? Then later when people start to adopt cloud-init phase out device-init and switch to pre-baked cloud-init files?

[StefanScherer]

Implemented with #32