Remove cloud-init in your VM
Unless you are using OpenStack, AWS etc then cloud-init is just some bloat that slows down the booting of your VM and can actually halt it from booting if it doesn't have a proper working IP (not good!).
#remove cloud init!
Debian based Ubuntu / Mint
sudo apt remove cloud-init
RHEL / CentOS based
yum remove cloud-init
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