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Short description:

  Given the increasing demand in automated configurations for 
  virtual instances at an early initialization for Windows 
  guests, the new open source project called cloudbase-init 
  has been set out to do just that. Hence, following the 
  logical thread of the cloud-init project, which enables 
  configurations for various Linux distributions, our package 
  release helps configure Windows instances, with a wide range of custom specs for 
  [copy-paste] user creation, password injection, static 
  network configuration, hostname, [in the site description I see there is also an SSH in front, but shouldn't it be used for Linux?] public 
  keys and userdata scripts. Coming to our aid are a list of 
  well-defined plugins which are explained in the following 
  paragraphs.

What can it do? ⇔ Capabilities The primary capabilities of

Which Windows distros can support it? ⇔ Availability ( Win Srv 2003…)

?Formats: lookup plugins/windows/userdatautils ?Directory layout Cloud config examples Datasources (Metadata) ?Modules Merging Plugins: