Comment 14 for bug 1732917

Changing manage_etc_hosts seems to do something. If I set it to "yes", and do "systemctl restart cloud-init", my /etc/hosts gets updated. The main reason I do this is as an easy way to get the local hostname+fqdn inside /etc/hosts, for resolution purposes. I could modify /etc/hosts directly, but I thought cloud-init would be the best way to do it. Is it not?

Cheers, James