docs: document cloud-init for the discovery OS - #5631
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| The Scout service is not ordered after `cloud-final.service`. Do not rely on a | ||
| snippet completing before Scout starts. Long-running work can be terminated by | ||
| the applicable cloud-init unit timeout and is not retried later in the same | ||
| boot. |
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Scout does wait before beginning discovery: crates/scout/src/main.rs calls cloud-init status --wait before initial_setup, with a separate 600-second backstop after which Scout proceeds. Telling operators only that the systemd unit is unordered and to inspect TimeoutStartUSec hides both the normal completion guarantee and the real fallback; a snippet may still be running after that backstop because timing out the status command does not terminate cloud-final.service. This can lead sites to design around concurrency that normally does not exist, while missing the concurrency case that actually does. Document the wait, its 600-second limit, and the resulting behavior.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L347-L361
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| Place site-specific cloud-config snippets in | ||
| `<PXE static directory>/blobs/internal/cloud-init.d/scout`. |
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For users of the shipped nico-pxe Helm chart, naming an in-container path is not enough to configure this feature: the chart exposes neither general pod volumes nor volume mounts on the PXE container, so the ConfigMap-mounted approach described below cannot be expressed through values. The available chart path is to use bootArtifactContainers to copy snippets from an image into its shared emptyDir (or to apply an external Deployment patch), but neither method nor the default /forge-boot-artifacts static directory is documented here. As written, a Helm operator cannot turn this instruction into a persistent deployment configuration from the page.
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WalkthroughThe pull request adds Scout cloud-init documentation, links it from provisioning guidance, adds it to navigation, and clarifies user-data formats, merge behavior, and timeout handling. ChangesScout cloud-init documentation
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Documents how site operators configure cloud-init snippets for Scout, the discovery OS. It covers snippet discovery and validation, safe composition, timeout behavior, idempotency, reboot-loop and secret risks, and metadata fallback behavior. It also adds the page to the documentation navigation and links it from the host-ingestion guide.
Related issues
Closes #5539
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No testing required (docs, internal refactor, etc.)
cargo test -p carbide-pxe routes::cloud_init::scout::tests(12 passed)Fern 5.108.0: all 142 MDX files passed
fern docs md checkFern 5.108.0:
fern checkcompleted with zero errors; the redirects check was skipped because Fern authentication was unavailablerumdl 0.2.62: changed Markdown files passed linting
git diff --checkpassedAdditional Notes
This change is limited to Scout and discovery OS documentation. It does not add DPU or tenant cloud-init documentation.