CLOUD-ID(1) General Commands Manual CLOUD-ID(1)

cloud-id - Report the canonical cloud-id for this instance

cloud-id [-h] [-j] [-l] [-i <INSTANCE_DATA>]

cloud-id is the lowercase name of the cloud datasource discovered.

The cloud-id will be 'not run' when systemd generator has not run yet. The cloud-id will be 'disabled' when cloud-init is disabled or when ds-identify did not find a valid datasource.

See cloud-init status --long for more information.

Show help message and exit
Report all standardized cloud-id information as json
Report extended cloud-id information as tab-delimited string
Path to instance-data.json file. Default is /run/cloud-init/instance-data.json

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On success
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Due to an error
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Due to cloud-init in a disabled state. See: cloud-init status --long
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The cloud-init generator and discovery has not yet run.

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Full documentation at: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io