It doesn't work if your cloud init prints too much. AWS only holds a certain amount and the so the API call will truncate the output and lose the key (it shows

It doesn't work if your cloud init prints too much. AWS only holds a certain amount and the so the API call will truncate the output and lose the key (it shows you the tail and not the head of I remember correctly). Our organization has this problem (we run puppet in cloud init which spews like crazy). I did notice recently that cloud init has an option to hot a web hook when it is complete and they have options in there to add the host key to the POST. But I wonder how to make a web hook that would be immune to spoofing…