Hi I'm regularly reinstantiating many AWS instances that run Debian (bullseye). I see some strange behavior, in that instance come up very consistently in about 6 seconds (according to /var/log/cloud-init-output.log). But every now and then it takes much longer, in the order of 40 seconds.
Sample sequence of newly created instances (head -1 /var/log/cloud-init-output.log): Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:07:27 +0000. Up 5.52 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:12:58 +0000. Up 4.75 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:18:36 +0000. Up 4.87 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:03:54 +0000. Up 5.42 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:05:49 +0000. Up 4.96 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:07:38 +0000. Up 5.77 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:09:30 +0000. Up 6.20 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:11:25 +0000. Up 5.64 seconds. Cloud-init v. 20.4.1 running 'init-local' at Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:13:50 +0000. Up 42.21 seconds. I guess this is not a problem with the Debian image, and I can probably configure our deployment to cope with this delay, but I'm curious as to why this happens. FYI this is an eu-central-1 (frankfurt). thx -- Dick Visser Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager GÉANT
