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Why: Bypasses interactive installation prompts and injects static WAN routing in a zero-trust network where local DHCP is blocked.
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How: It groups
user-dataandmeta-dataconfig files into a virtual CD-ROM compiled with the lowercase volume labelcidata. -
Trigger: The host script mounts this virtual disk alongside the base Ubuntu Server ISO during VM generation.
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Action: On boot, the kernel reads the disk to establish connectivity, clone the repository, and execute the Ansible hardening playbook to configure the VM.