Comment 0 for bug 1661693

Brightbox provides an EC2 Metadata service lookalike, and that is how cloud-init
gets metadata on their platform.

In an effort to avoid polling metadata services in cloud-init we will disable
attempts to reach the MD without positive identification of the cloud.

We need to be able to positively identify that the host platform is
brightbox so we can safely assume there will be a metadata service there.

The easiest thing is for Brightbox to put something in dmi tables that identify
their platform. See bug 1660385 for more information and for how Amazon does
this.

Related bugs
 bug 1660385: Alert user of Ec2 Datasource on lookalike cloud