metadata api detection runs before network-online

[Bernhard M. Wiedemann]

Version: 18.2

originally filed at https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1097388

I found that cloud-init did not import authorized keys
because DataSourceNone was used
because the metadata API detection ran before the VM's network was up.

[Chad Smith (chad.smith)]

typo corrections:
Thank you for the bug Bernhard and making cloud-init better. cloud-init needs to run before networking is up in some cases to collect any local metadata that may be available.

I heard mention of an issue that might be affecting you here, but it's hard to tell without cloud-init logs.

On the failed system, can you run "sudo cloud-init collect-logs" and attach the resulting cloud-init.tar.gz

Recent changes allow the OpenstackDatasource to use dhclient to setup a network sandbox to query metadata and configure networking on all nics with data from network_data.json.

My thoughts are that this issue related to EphemeralDHCP setup because SLES has wicked network client instead of dhclient installed. Without a dhclient utlity on the system, a traceback in DatasourceOpenStack detection would cause cloud-init to fallback to DataSourceNone as a catchall.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

@Bernhard,
without more info we can't do anything here.
please run 'cloud-init collect-logs' and attach.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Likely related to bug 1733226 (thanks robjo).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for cloud-init because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3200