@@ -466,6 +466,13 @@ function is_arch {

     [[ "$(uname -m)" == "$1" ]]

 }

+# Quick check for a rackspace host; n.b. rackspace provided images

+# have these Xen tools installed but a custom image may not.

+function is_rackspace {

+    [ -f /usr/bin/xenstore-ls ] && \

+        sudo /usr/bin/xenstore-ls vm-data | grep -q "Rackspace"

+}

+

 # Determine if current distribution is a Fedora-based distribution

 # (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, etc).

 # is_fedora

@@ -216,6 +216,14 @@ if is_ubuntu; then

     echo 'APT::Acquire::Retries "20";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80retry

 fi

+# upstream Rackspace centos7 images have an issue where cloud-init is

+# installed via pip because there were not official packages when the

+# image was created (fix in the works).  Remove all pip packages

+# before we do anything else

+if [[ $DISTRO = "rhel7" && is_rackspace ]]; then

+    (sudo pip freeze | xargs sudo pip uninstall -y) || true

+fi

+

 # Some distros need to add repos beyond the defaults provided by the vendor

 # to pick up required packages.