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| Functionality | Cloud-init | Hypervisor tools |
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| Set fully qualified domain name (FQDN) |  | |
| Generate a random password at deploy and optionally send by email and/or SMS to owner | | |
| Inject network configuration if no DHCP server is available |  |   |
| Inject SSH keys into guest. | |  |
| Configuration drive with environment variables and user-data presented to guest OS on an ISO disk. See Configuration drive | | |
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Chef uses cloud init
In private cloud datacenters, the Abiquo Chef integration now uses cloud init. You will need a cloud-init or cloud-base-init compatible template.
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