Your pre-recorded Cloudconfig own setup is user-wide (so per user). It won't be universal for everyone.

Ping @julien-f in case it was missed

@mtcoffee Thank you. Just what I need.

@furyflash777 I'm assuming you're on Ubuntu? Indeed as Olivier said this is tested on Debian and doesn't cause issues, but it seems on the newer Ubuntu versions with cloud-init, the new Netplan based network manager and how it interacts with cloud-init breaks/gets wiped if no cloud-init drive is found. Yet another cloud-init bug to track down