Comment 14 for bug 1663315

Markus,

Currently for non-x86 systems cloud-init falls back to looking polling for network metadata services. We'd like to fix that and make non-x86 consistent with x86. But until we can fix this bug, we can't really do that.

Andreas, As you found, kernel command line is really not ideal at all, as modification from "outside" is not really possible. We want to enable vendors to make images that "just work" on multiple clouds. Requiring the image consumer to open the image and modify the kernel command line would break that.

We really need the cloud platform to identify itself to the running system in a deterministic way.