Lennart Poettering on Nostr: …if it is running in a suitable cloud via the hwdb entries. If the answer is yes, ...

…if it is running in a suitable cloud via the hwdb entries. If the answer is yes, it will add two services to the initial boot transaction. First of all there's systemd-imdsd.service. All it does is provide a generic Varlink IPC API fronting the direct IMDS access. It provides both immediate IMDS key access (which is still cloud specific) as well as generic IMDS key access to a vocabulary of well-known keys (which is cloud agnostic). It will do basic caching, and can deal with multiple…