Booting an AMI

Ordering

I know nothing

First boot

before or after networking ?

Setting hostname

Cloud-init

grep -i hostname /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceEc2.py

nothing

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/sources/__init__.py

ha ha!

def get_hostname(self, fqdn=False, resolve_ip=False):
 if not self.metadata or 'local-hostname' not in self.metadata:
  hostname = util.get_hostname()
  fqdn = util.get_fqdn_from_hosts(hostname)

... /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py

def get_hostname():
    print "In cloudinit util, get_hostname"
    hostname = socket.gethostname()
    print "Hostname is %'.format(hostname)
    return hostname