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+.. -*- mode: rst -*-
+
+hosts
+=====
+
+This is an example of creating ``/etc/hosts`` based on metadata.hostname::
+
+    # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
+    # that require network functionality will fail.
+    127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
+    ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
+    {% python
+    import socket
+    import re
+    ip = socket.gethostbyname(metadata.hostname)
+
+    shortname = re.split("\.", metadata.hostname)
+    %}\
+    ${ip} ${metadata.hostname} ${shortname[0]}