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Prevent do-agent/dotty-agent from installing

Posted on July 31, 2026

I’m switching VMs to bootc, and it seems digitalocean is attempting to install do-agent/dotty-agent through cloud-init. I presume this is because this was not turned off during VM creation, and I can’ change this setting after the fact (or can I ?)

So now I have scripts frantically attemptig to install the DO agents, only to be denied because bootc keeps /usr/ as readonly, flooding the console durig startup

Is there a way to prevent cloud-init from running these scripts, or to prevent these scripts from doing any work - without having to fully disable cloud-init?

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