On Wed, Jan 6, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Lebon wrote:

> One issue here is that cloud-init takes some time before realizing
> that it has no source. It tries to connect to the default metadata
> server address. It uses a 50s timeout it seems. We would probably
> have to reduce this to something more sensible (5s? 10s?).

Hm...that means we're a bit more reliant on metadata server availability.

Realistically, it *should* be very reliable for a cloud provider - it's just
hosting a tiny amount of data.  The cloud-init timeout here does seem
extremely conservative.

But I'm hesitant to speak confidently about *all* cloud providers.

That said, the failure scenario here is just that we autogenerate a
local root password only accessible on the physical console.

(In fact in this scenario, why generate a password at all?  Just
 auto-login the first physical console, then the user can set a root
 password if they want)
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