Is it possible to change the default 'cloud-user' user in the KVM images?

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Issue

  • We are deploying VMs using the default qcow2 KVM images and we want to use a user different than 'cloud-user'.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
  • cloud-init

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