cloud-id command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cloud-id: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cloud-id: command not found

Solutions to cloud-id: command not found

How To Fix cloud-id: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cloud-id is provided by cloud-init package.

cloud-init is:

Cloud-init is the industry standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization. It is supported across all major public cloud providers, provisioning systems for private cloud infrastructure, and bare-metal installations.

Cloud instances are initialized from a disk image and instance data:

• Cloud metadata
• User data (optional)
• Vendor data (optional)

Cloud-init will identify the cloud it is running on during boot, read any provided metadata from the cloud and initialize the system accordingly. This may involve setting up the network and storage devices to configuring SSH access key and many other aspects of a system. Later on the cloud-init will also parse and process any optional user or vendor data that was passed to the instance.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cloud-init

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cloud-init.

sudo apt -y install cloud-init

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cloud-init

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cloud-id command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.