An administrator is provisioning a VM with a data disk. They want to mount the disk at /data, but only if the disk is present. They also want to ensure the mount is persistent across reboots. Which cloud-init configuration should they use?

Use 'runcmd' to format and mount the disk, and write an fstab entry manually.

Use 'write_files' to create a systemd mount unit.

Use 'mounts' with the 'nofail' option to avoid boot issues if the disk is missing.

Use 'disk_setup' and 'fs_setup' to format the disk, and 'mounts' to add an fstab entry.

An administrator is troubleshooting why cloud-init is not applying user-data on a VM. They suspect the datasource is not being detected. Which file should they check to see which datasource cloud-init detected?

/var/lib/cloud/instance/datasource.txt

/run/cloud-init/datasource.json

An administrator is creating a cloud-init user-data script for a CentOS Stream 9 VM. They need to install the 'httpd' package and ensure it is enabled and started. Which cloud-init configuration should they use?

runcmd: [yum install -y httpd, systemctl enable httpd]

package_update: true, package_upgrade: true, packages: [httpd]

packages: [httpd], runcmd: [systemctl enable --now httpd]

write_files: - path: /etc/yum.repos.d/httpd.repo, content: [httpd]

In cloud-init configuration, what does the 'datasource_list' setting control?

The log level for cloud-init's output

The order and selection of datasources that cloud-init will attempt to use

The list of users that will be created on the instance

The list of modules that will run during initialization

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An administrator is provisioning a VM with a data disk. They want to mount the disk at /data, but only if the disk is present. They also want to ensure the mount is persistent across reboots. Which cloud-init configuration should they use?
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An administrator is troubleshooting why cloud-init is not applying user-data on a VM. They suspect the datasource is not being detected. Which file should they check to see which datasource cloud-init detected?
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Which tool is commonly used to generate a config drive for cloud-init?
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An administrator is creating a cloud-init user-data script for a CentOS Stream 9 VM. They need to install the 'httpd' package and ensure it is enabled and started. Which cloud-init configuration should they use?
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In cloud-init configuration, what does the 'datasource_list' setting control?
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