- Red Hat issued a patch that removed all derivatives from being Red Hat distributions. This caused the default user to be “rocky” among other breaking changes.
- Part of the above was fixed upstream and fixed downstream (in our own package). The exception is we change rocky back to cloud-user as this is expected by users making their own AMI’s in most scenarios and it also fixes tests/images being performed in openstack.
- Our kickstarts have histortically changed cloud-user to rocky. See here. But because the cloud.cfg file is technically unchanged on an update, the user was changed in your case.
I asked @neil to look into generating updating AMI’s.