Current situation

Azure-init is aiming to improve its modularity by adding flags for each feature. Currently, there is no mechanism to signal when a report is ready or when a failure occurs.

Ideal future situation

We are able to call one of the below flags to have azure-init indicate provisioning status.

Implementation options

• azure-init --report-ready
• azure-init --report-failure
• azure-init --report-in-progress (tbd on this one)

Additional information

These flags should not be exclusive. We want the ability to combine them with other flags in a single call to azure-init (e.g., --report_ready --configure-sshd).