diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 773c136e26a..d47e71df795 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -229,6 +229,16 @@ install_data(
   install_mode: 'rw-r--r--',
   install_tag: 'doc',
 )
+install_data(
+  [
+    'doc/status.txt',
+    'doc/userdata.txt',
+    'doc/var-lib-cloud.txt',
+  ],
+  install_dir: get_option('datadir') / 'doc' / 'cloud-init',
+  install_mode: 'rw-r--r--',
+  install_tag: 'doc',
+)
 install_data(
   [
     'doc/examples/seed/README',