diff --git a/deploy/osps/default/osp-ubuntu.yaml b/deploy/osps/default/osp-ubuntu.yaml
index 85e8942b..353bdedf 100644
--- a/deploy/osps/default/osp-ubuntu.yaml
+++ b/deploy/osps/default/osp-ubuntu.yaml
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ spec:
               curl -s -k -v --header 'Authorization: Bearer {{ .Token }}'	{{ .ServerURL }}/api/v1/namespaces/cloud-init-settings/secrets/{{ .SecretName }} | jq '.data["cloud-config"]' -r| base64 -d > /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/{{ .SecretName }}.cfg
               cloud-init clean
 
+              {{- /* Azure's cloud-init provider integration has changed recently (end of April 2024) and now requires us to run this command below once to set some files up that seem required for another cloud-init run. */}}
+              {{- if (eq .CloudProviderName "azure") }}
+              cloud-init init --local
+              {{- end }}
+
               {{- /* The default cloud-init configurations files have a bug on Digital Ocean that causes the machine to be in-accessible on the 2nd cloud-init and in case of Hetzner, ipv6 addresses are missing. Hence we disable network configuration. */}}
               {{- if (or (eq .CloudProviderName "digitalocean") (eq .CloudProviderName "hetzner")) }}
               rm /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml