…AWS, Azure (and later a few other clouds), and Amutable.
One of the results of this work is the new built-in IMDS support in systemd v261. It's supposed to address the various issues we saw around the current status quo.
First of all, it puts strong focus on auto-detecting the various clouds and doing minimal abstraction over the various flavours of HTTP. For this, we just reused the existing "hwdb" infrastructure of systemd. In case you don't remember: hwdb is systemd's database for…
Lennart Poettering
npub1r9…yts2x
2026-06-02 06:43:19 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…m02m
Author Public Key
npub1r9ngmtyw5c9qx49tw9rkty6v89yyq95sys9fzj69v6gy883zfcfsyyts2xSeen on
wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2026-06-02 06:43:19 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "e4928388f768dbd0931fff1417521b510a50fd81bb91673fed94949b5bd9fd03",
"pubkey": "19668dac8ea60a0354ab714765934c3948401690240a914b456690439e224e13",
"created_at": 1780382599,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"f5a6e2f55e4e4df98f5e1c3e208f6d104ef0064f00454228a38560ef223bf553",
"",
"reply",
"19668dac8ea60a0354ab714765934c3948401690240a914b456690439e224e13"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116679154024345110",
"web"
],
[
"p",
"19668dac8ea60a0354ab714765934c3948401690240a914b456690439e224e13"
],
[
"e",
"6eb1d282dc3cffc3600569e8f5879c632885e777e8d42dafdae074d324ee525c",
"",
"root",
"19668dac8ea60a0354ab714765934c3948401690240a914b456690439e224e13"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/pid_eins/statuses/116679154024345110",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/pid_eins/statuses/116679154024345110",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "…AWS, Azure (and later a few other clouds), and Amutable.\n\nOne of the results of this work is the new built-in IMDS support in systemd v261. It's supposed to address the various issues we saw around the current status quo.\n\nFirst of all, it puts strong focus on auto-detecting the various clouds and doing minimal abstraction over the various flavours of HTTP. For this, we just reused the existing \"hwdb\" infrastructure of systemd. In case you don't remember: hwdb is systemd's database for…",
"sig": "1b36b0aac1e8e2169b446d9f9b4cbcf4a7f1c945e5f5ac5a2841c16769d55a04b4ebd35dfaa85e39600a021c91a1cb74364b6570a198d281cfeea21d1f56ab0f"
}