Provide a metadata service that VMs can fetch individually, allowing them to fetch their own Ignition/cloud-init configs on startup.
All we would need to do is to have those images fetch those bootstrap configs from the metadata server on firstboot, and on subsequent boots they can also query it for various metadata about the machines.
This would allow instances to self-bootstrap on first boot and later query platform metadata for integrations such as node self-registration, autoscaling, and service discovery.
Provide a metadata service that VMs can fetch individually, allowing them to fetch their own Ignition/cloud-init configs on startup.
All we would need to do is to have those images fetch those bootstrap configs from the metadata server on firstboot, and on subsequent boots they can also query it for various metadata about the machines.
This would allow instances to self-bootstrap on first boot and later query platform metadata for integrations such as node self-registration, autoscaling, and service discovery.