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Re: Prevent new instances from updating/rebooting?



To answer my own question: yes this is possible, by using a cloud-init
style user data blob:


#cloud-init
package_update: false
package_upgrade: false
package_reboot_if_required: false



On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 11:17, Dick Visser <dick.visser@geant.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I noticed that newly created bullseye-amd64 AWS instances auto
> update/reboot themselves at instantiating time.
> We would like to do that ourselves, so the process is more
> predictable. The auto reboots currently cause issues during our
> deployment because it is not possible to predict if/when they happen.
>
> Is there a way to override this behavior? Perhaps by having some
> flags/code in the user_data?
>
> many thanks
>
> --
> Dick Visser
> Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
> GÉANT



-- 
Dick Visser
Trust & Identity Service Operations Manager
GÉANT


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