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Public bug reported:

Can the documentation please be updated to no longer claim that this is
"the industry standard" tool for cloud instance initialization?

I realize the project is ambitious and empathize with that, but, it's
misleading and I've had to correct folks who rely on the documentation
and don't always see the merit of marketing.

To be clear, there is no standards body that specifies cloud-init as
"the industry standard" for anything as of the time of this bug filing,
making the statement inaccurate.

If it's just a wording thing, it's certainly used in the AWS space, but
it's not as heavily used (by consumers of CSPs anyway) in the Azure and
GCP space.  The 4 or so major CSPs seem to be mentioning it in their
documentation, but this is not a reflection of how end users are doing
things.

I also cite the process I had to follow just to file this bug after
being made aware of this in the github repository as evidence of
"standard practices" having nothing to do with this.

** Affects: cloud-init
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  documentation describes this as "the industry standard" anything

Status in cloud-init:
  New

Bug description:
  Can the documentation please be updated to no longer claim that this
  is "the industry standard" tool for cloud instance initialization?

  I realize the project is ambitious and empathize with that, but, it's
  misleading and I've had to correct folks who rely on the documentation
  and don't always see the merit of marketing.

  To be clear, there is no standards body that specifies cloud-init as
  "the industry standard" for anything as of the time of this bug
  filing, making the statement inaccurate.

  If it's just a wording thing, it's certainly used in the AWS space,
  but it's not as heavily used (by consumers of CSPs anyway) in the
  Azure and GCP space.  The 4 or so major CSPs seem to be mentioning it
  in their documentation, but this is not a reflection of how end users
  are doing things.

  I also cite the process I had to follow just to file this bug after
  being made aware of this in the github repository as evidence of
  "standard practices" having nothing to do with this.

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