Hashicorp has their own hashicorp/cloud-init provider, which makes for more readable/maintainable templates instead of hardcoding a cloud-init config.

I have already made PRs for this in the past:

• feat: use hashicorp/cloud-init provider in AWS devcontainer template #15050
• feat: use hashicorp/cloud-init provider for AWS-linux example #15240

I have realized that the following templates could also make use of this provider:

• azure-linux
• digitalocean-linux
• incus