Availability

Below outlines the current availability of cloud-init across distributions and clouds, both public and private.

Note

If a distribution or cloud does not show up in the list below contact them and ask for images to be generated using cloud-init!

Distributions

Cloud-init has support across all major Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFlyBSD:

  • Alpine Linux

  • ArchLinux

  • Debian

  • DragonFlyBSD

  • Fedora

  • FreeBSD

  • Gentoo Linux

  • NetBSD

  • OpenBSD

  • Photon OS

  • RHEL/CentOS/AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux/EuroLinux

  • SLES/openSUSE

  • Ubuntu

Clouds

Cloud-init provides support across a wide ranging list of execution environments in the public cloud:

  • Amazon Web Services

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Google Cloud Platform

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Softlayer

  • Rackspace Public Cloud

  • IBM Cloud

  • DigitalOcean

  • Bigstep

  • Hetzner

  • Joyent

  • CloudSigma

  • Alibaba Cloud

  • OVH

  • OpenNebula

  • Exoscale

  • Scaleway

  • CloudStack

  • AltCloud

  • SmartOS

  • UpCloud

  • Vultr

  • Zadara Edge Cloud Platform

Additionally, cloud-init is supported on these private clouds:

  • Bare metal installs

  • OpenStack

  • LXD

  • KVM

  • Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS)

  • VMware