Comment 3 for bug 1739516

I just stumbled over this bug as well.

Reading all the cases (a,b,c...) I do not see the downside in just setting the hostname in the init-local stage as well.

This can be done as an additional step only if the info is already there (i.e. mounted via iso). To check that would not take long and neither would setting the hostname take long.

Please consider adding this functionality and in case you decide against it please tell us what you think the downside of this would be.

As a side note: A similar request can be solved at the same time. See here https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1643688.