…network interfaces that all might or might not be suitable for contacting IMDS.
And then ther's "systemd-imds". This first of all is friendly client tool to "systemd-imdsd.service", for querying IMDS keys from shell scripts or intractively. Secondly, it may run in early boot (initrd typically) to acquire system credentials automatically from IMDS and insert them into /run/credstore/ so that the OS can consume them from there. It's written carefully so that it is fine if the userdata…
Lennart Poettering
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2026-06-02 06:53:35 UTC
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