Post #600218

2026-03-09 09:37 UTC

Hey, lazy web. Together with AWS and Microsoft, we are working on adding some minimal, native IMDS support to systemd, given how ubiquitous the concept is in the cloud world these days. It&#39;s supposed to be fully automatic, and reasonably generic. i.e. all the cloud-specific info (i.e. how to detect the clouds, which URLs to use) are placed in systemd&#39;s hwdb database, so that the code itself can be kept generic. Right now the PR I prepped for this supports 5 major clouds. And I need your help…

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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 09:39

…to cover more. The current definitions are here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40980/files#diff-e645a84b0f883f07f110bdf41470bad564f610e396aa163f539ee0fbb6360651 If you know the hwdb concept a bit, and have a look at the comments in the file, you'll be able to figure out which data I need based on this I am sure. Please paste data you found as a comment in the PR, but please keep the noise level down: please check if someone else provided the data for your cloud of choice already. (Or in other words, don't make me regret I asked for help here ;-)) Thank you!

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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-03-09 09:46

@pid_eins do your f job, we're not here to help microsoft and aws for free.

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@Gilou@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 10:41

@pid_eins cloud-init metadata should be somehow uniform no? OVH/OpenStack and Proxmox VE will most likely use the same keys for basic stuff. You may be sorry for asking, because your wording and displayed allegiance to MS/AWS is quite irritating.

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