Comment # 8 on bug 1093501 from Martin Steigerwald

Just removing the generator leads to cloud-init services not being run at
startup on my SLES 12 SP 3 VM with

slestemplate:~ # find /etc/systemd | grep cloud
/etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-final.service
/etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-config.service
/etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init-local.service
/etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init.service

All services are enabled according to systemctl status SERVICE

slestemplate:~ # rpm -qa | grep cloud-init
cloud-init-config-suse-18.2-3.1.x86_64
cloud-init-18.2-3.1.x86_64

slestemplate:~ # systemctl status cloud-init.target
��� cloud-init.target - Cloud-init target
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cloud-init.target; static; vendor
preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
slestemplate:~ # systemctl status cloud-config.target
��� cloud-config.target - Cloud-config availability
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cloud-config.target; static; vendor
preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

The output I get is:

slestemplate:~ # systemctl  |grep cloud

When I do:

slestemplate:~ # systemctl start cloud-init.target
slestemplate:~ # systemctl | grep cloud
cloud-config.service                                                           
            loaded active exited    Apply the settings specified in
cloud-config
cloud-final.service                                                            
            loaded active exited    Execute cloud user/final scripts
cloud-init-local.service                                                       
            loaded active exited    Initial cloud-init job (pre-networking)
cloud-init.service                                                             
            loaded active exited    Initial cloud-init job (metadata service
crawler)
cloud-config.target                                                            
            loaded active active    Cloud-config availability
cloud-init.target                                                              
            loaded active active    Cloud-init target

So it is still not working out of the box. I enabled all services and the
targets with systemctl enable. It is not obvious for me to enable cloud init in
case the Systemd generator does not do it. I thought I did, but apparently I
did not.