Since we  announced our metadata service  in August, we have expanded this functionality’s availability and how you can use it to accelerate compute instance setup.  cloud-init is a universally compatible standard for customizing cloud instances across providers and can be used in place of or along with  StackScripts . Though StackScripts work well on our platform, we wanted to make it easier for developers migrating to or using Akamai cloud computing services alongside other cloud providers by using industry-standard scripting. Functioning as a light infrastructure as code tool, cloud-init metadata makes it easy to “plug and play” scripted deployments to reduce the overall work needed to set up a new compute instance. On our platform, use cloud-init to: Manage  users and user groups on new compute instances; Automatically install software  when your compute instance finishes provisioning; and Execute bash scripts  on first boot.…