The Ubuntu Pi images are modified Ubuntu Cloud images and as such they
use cloud-init for their initial configuration. On the very first boot,
there's quite a bit more output than this (from cloud-init) confirming
it's created users, imported SSH keys, or whatever else it's been set up
to do (via user-data on the boot partition). However, on subsequent
boots it also outputs these lines indicating that it's run but had
nothing to do (cloud-init can be set to run things on subsequent boots
but doesn't by default).

I don't know the reason for this specifically, but I'd hazard a guess
that the fact it's on the console would be for debugging reasons. For
the very first boot it's actually rather useful given that getty (the
process that produces the login prompt) typically executes *before*
cloud-init completes and thus the cloud-init output serves to prompt
when the initial user has been created (permitting login). However, on
subsequent boots it is (at least superficially) needless output.

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