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Is it really a good idea to wipe out the whole cloud-init cloud.cfg just to change/add these options?

Reported by: kaerka.phillips

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.11/html/provisioning_hosts/provisioning_virtual_machines_in_vmware_provisioning#annotations:c2d9d369-19f5-4d6b-ba22-8cb364367f97

Hello,
Many thanks for your feedback.
The documentation team will share information about the progress on its implementation in this ticket.
Thank you!

> Any ideas why it isn't a good idea?

Well, you override the original file without doing any backup. So you can break things.
Adding an optional step to create a backup of the file might be useful, 
but that's 101 of Linux configuration, you should do that no matter what.

So to answer the note: "No, it's not a good idea, unless you have a backup of the file."

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/2801

Published:

- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.14/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.13/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.12/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Using_VMware_Cloud_Init_and_Userdata_Templates_for_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning