Sorry I'm not following.  I had a poke around the /etc/cloud/* of an instance 
to see what was there and notice that in one of the files there is a list of 
enabled datasources.  Is this what you're referring to?  As far as I'm aware (I 
could be completely wrong, I haven't delved too far deep into the inner 
workings of all of this yet - though i have read pertinent bits of the 
cloud-init source) the datasources can (or do?) work in series so that for 
example if no NoCloud drive is mounted then cloud-init will go to the next 
datasource.  At least that's how I've seen it work on all the other 
distributions I've tried this with.  Again, I could be completely wrong and 
have entirely misunderstood.
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Cliff Rowley
Thinker, Tinkerer, Dork
@cliffrowley

> On 9 Feb 2016, at 10:29, Chris Fordham <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Cliff Rowley <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Greetings, apologies if this isn't the right place or if this has been asked 
> and dealt with before, but are there any plans to enable the NoCloud 
> datasource in the published cloud images?
> 
> I'm not using OpenStack but I am enjoying the benefits of cloud images.  So 
> far, my Linux of choice (Debian, of course) is the only distribution that has 
> been giving me a few surmountable yet frustrating issues running as a guest.  
> The ConfigDrive datasource is ok, if a little fiddly, but even once 
> configured the cloud-init system is still trying to make contact with my 
> (nonexistent) metadata server and somehow still thinks its being managed by 
> OpenStack.  Conversely when using the NoCloud datasource with other 
> distributions, configuration is done and finalised with no extra 
> considerations.
> 
> For those of us who aren't using the whole OpenStack shebang, configuring an 
> image with NoCloud is a simple `cloud-localds` away and it'd be great if the 
> Debian cloud images supported this too..
> —
> Cliff Rowley
> Thinker, Tinkerer, Dork
> @cliffrowley
> 
> I think that really depends on which images we are talking about here. We 
> should be enabling only the applicable datasources per image as datasource 
> selection afaik can only be depicted by cloud.cfg or the included config dir 
> (baked in).

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