How to get rid of cloud-init?

According to the cloud-init docs the way to disable it is:

sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled

And/or set cloud-init=disabled on the kernel command line if it's enabled that way.

This worked for me in Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LST

$ echo 'datasource_list: [ None ]' | sudo -s tee /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg
$ sudo apt-get purge cloud-init
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/cloud/; sudo rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/
$ reboot

Good Luck.

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