How to wait for cloud-init¶

It is useful to be able to wait until cloud-init has completed running prior to doing some other task.

CLI¶

Cloud-init’s command cloud-init status --wait will exit once cloud-init has completed.

SystemD¶

Systems using systemd may be configured to start a service after cloud-init completes. This may be accomplished by including After=cloud-init.target multi-user.target in the unit file. For example:

[Unit]
Description=Example service
After=cloud-init.target multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=sh -c 'echo "Howdy partner 🤠"'
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target