
Previously this had 'local' as the default datasource mode, meaning that user-data code such as boot hooks and such would not be guaranteed to have network access. That would be out of sync with the expectation on other platforms where the default is 'network up'. The user can still specify 'dsmode' as local if necessary and the local datasource will claim itself found.
This project is cloud-init it is hosted on launchpad at https://launchpad.net/cloud-init The package was previously named ec2-init.