Ahmed Kamal: Cloud Instance with Cloud-Init on KVM

I wanted to run an Ubuntu server cloud instance locally on KVM hypervisor. I also wanted to run cloud-init on the local setup in order to experiment a bit with it. So that means, downloading a UEC image, booting it under KVM, and passing cloud-init parameters to it as it boots. Much to my surprise things were far easier than I expected, all thanks to our rocking Ubuntu cloud team. Here’s the script I cobbled together, most of it is basically a rip off from this UEC Images wiki page.

So what this does is, it:

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