On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:12:57PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote: > Oh, interesting! Thanks for the quick answer. Do you know if and how I can control this behavior? cloud-init is trying to figure out if it's running on GCE by checking for the local metadata service. It should fail and move on. To manually control which datasources are enabled, start here: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/datasources.html Ross