Question

Is adding an external repo via user-data/cloud-init on Ubuntu 24 droplet creation supported?

I’m trying to add a repo source to my cloud init with the following:

apt:
  preserve_sources_list: true
  sources:
    grafana.list:
      source: "deb https://apt.grafana.com stable main"
      key: "https://apt.grafana.com/gpg.key"

It doesn’t seem to have an effect. Does anyone know if DO support this type of configuration in cloud-init?


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