Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud- init/issues/3398
** Bug watch added: github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues #3398 https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3398 ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Triaged => Expired -- 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/1834371 Title: On GCE, ds.metadata.instance_data cannot be used for templating Status in cloud-init: Expired Bug description: When running on GCE, the templating engine has a ds.metadata.instance_data attribute available to it. However, that attribute is a string representation of a dictionary (of GCE-specific metadata), rather than a dictionary. This means that the contents of instance_data cannot readily be used in templating. This is a feature request for instance_data to be presented as a dict rather than as an opaque string. [Original Report] I have a use-case where I need to query the metadata that was passed on creating the instance and use those values as variables in my cloud-config. However, ds.meta_data.instance_data is a string, hence making it not query-able from cloud-config. Just removing the enclosing quotes and the escaping around the quotes within the actual dictionary itself makes the instance_data field easily query-able. Please consider making the instance_data field a query-able field? Environment Information : Operating System : Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Cloud Init : 19.1-1-gbaa47854-0ubuntu1~18.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1834371/+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
