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Media

Below are some videos, blog posts, and white papers about cloud-init from a variety of sources.

• Cloud Instance Initialization with cloud-init (Whitepaper)
• cloud-init Summit 2018
• cloud-init - The cross-cloud Magic Sauce (PDF)
• cloud-init Summit 2017
• cloud-init - Building clouds one Linux box at a time (Video)
• cloud-init - Building clouds one Linux box at a time (PDF)
• Metadata and cloud-init
• The beauty of cloud-init
• Introduction to cloud-init