Yes, I do think this is unreasonable. It is definitely not Hetzner's task to fix Ubuntu.
Especially since that process of re-initiialization of that instance ID is neither obvious nor documented. Looking at https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ I did not yet find an explanation of what is going on, and at https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/instancedata.html it just says v1.instance_id Unique instance_id allocated by the cloud. Examples output: i-<hash> but does not give a hint that this is to be constantly provided by some internal service. On the contrary, it says "Cloud-init is the industry standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization. It is supported across all major public cloud providers, provisioning systems for private cloud infrastructure, and bare-metal installations." It says „instance initalization”. It does not say that is keeps modifying the living instance. So this is undocumented behaviour, and I am more and more thinking about the question, whether this is a backdoor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885527 Title: cloud-init regenerating ssh-keys To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1885527/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
