IBMCloud ds-identify detects NoCloud but cloud-init determines ConfigDrive

[Chad Smith]

cloud-init: 18.2-4-g05926e48-0ubuntu1~16.04.2

Xenial IBMCloud template-based instances (with user-data) raise a ds-identify warning banner although ConfigDrive is properly detected:

...
# A new feature in cloud-init identified possible datasources for #
# this system as: #
# ['NoCloud', 'None'] #
# However, the datasource used was: ConfigDrive
...

Xenial IBMCloud instances mount a METADATA drive to /var/lib/cloud/seed/config_drive which cloud-init can detect and process properly as a ConfigDrive datasource. But, at the time ds-identify runs, it doesn't yet see that mount and as a result only detects NoCloud datasource.

from /etc/fstab
LABEL=METADATA /var/lib/cloud/seed/config_drive vfat defaults,nofail 0 0

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3171