Removing cloud-init from Ubuntu 20.04

Objective: To disable or remove cloud-init from your ubuntu 20.04 Server

Method 1: Disable cloud-init from file

This is the safest and the easiest method. We only need to create cloud-init.disabled file in /etc/cloud directory and reboot the system.

• To create empty file, issue this comand:

sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled

• and reboot:

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Method 2: Remove cloud-init package and folder

This last method is not disabling cloud-init but completely removing cloud-init package from your Ubuntu Server machine.

• Remove cloud-init package completely

sudo apt purge cloud-init -y

• Remove /etc/cloud folder

sudo rm -rf /etc/cloud && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/

• Reboot the system

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You will see that boot time has dramatically decreased.