** Description changed: + === Begin SRU Information === + [Impact] + CloudStack provides an EC2-style metadata server which cloud-init consumes. Unfortunately, the CloudStack metadata server does not exactly match the behaviour of the EC2 metadata server. When an instance using cloud-init is booted in a CloudStack environment, it will fail to retrieve metadata from the metadata server. This leads to cloud-init bailing out and making no changes to the instance, generally rendering it inaccessible and unusable. + + This patch changes all access to EC2-style metadata servers. Instead of + accessing http://.../meta-data to determine the available metadata, + cloud-init will access http://.../meta-data/ (i.e. with an added + trailing slash). + + [Test Case] + Booting an Ubuntu image configured to use the CloudStack data source within a CloudStack cloud environment. If (for example) the instance name is set correctly, then the fix has worked. + + [Regression Potential] + + Regression potential is low; this patch does affect more than just the + CloudStack data source, but it is backported from the version of cloud- + init in utopic which has been observed working. + + === End SRU Information === + Hi, Cloud-init 0.7.5 fails to get cloudstack user-data because of trailing slash (ok in previous versions). As a temp workaround I use the following patch in url_helper.py line 239 (0.7.5-0ubuntu1): - if e.response.status_code == 404: - if url.endswith("/"): - url = url[:-1] - req_args["url"] = url - else: - url = url + "/" - req_args["url"] = url + if e.response.status_code == 404: + if url.endswith("/"): + url = url[:-1] + req_args["url"] = url + else: + url = url + "/" + req_args["url"] = url - - I don't know how other products (EC2, openstack & co) deal with trailing slash + I don't know how other products (EC2, openstack & co) deal with trailing + slash Hope that helps Thanks
** Also affects: cloud-init (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1356855 Title: Cloud-init 0.7.5 Failed to get cloudstack user-data because of trailing slash Status in Init scripts for use on cloud images: Fix Committed Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: === Begin SRU Information === [Impact] CloudStack provides an EC2-style metadata server which cloud-init consumes. Unfortunately, the CloudStack metadata server does not exactly match the behaviour of the EC2 metadata server. When an instance using cloud-init is booted in a CloudStack environment, it will fail to retrieve metadata from the metadata server. This leads to cloud-init bailing out and making no changes to the instance, generally rendering it inaccessible and unusable. This patch changes all access to EC2-style metadata servers. Instead of accessing http://.../meta-data to determine the available metadata, cloud-init will access http://.../meta-data/ (i.e. with an added trailing slash). [Test Case] Booting an Ubuntu image configured to use the CloudStack data source within a CloudStack cloud environment. If (for example) the instance name is set correctly, then the fix has worked. [Regression Potential] Regression potential is low; this patch does affect more than just the CloudStack data source, but it is backported from the version of cloud-init in utopic which has been observed working. === End SRU Information === Hi, Cloud-init 0.7.5 fails to get cloudstack user-data because of trailing slash (ok in previous versions). As a temp workaround I use the following patch in url_helper.py line 239 (0.7.5-0ubuntu1): if e.response.status_code == 404: if url.endswith("/"): url = url[:-1] req_args["url"] = url else: url = url + "/" req_args["url"] = url I don't know how other products (EC2, openstack & co) deal with trailing slash Hope that helps Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1356855/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp