Comment 1 for bug 1724128

There are two paths we could pursue for this:
a.) Utilize reporting mechanism (reporting.handlers.ReportHandler), which already does this in many senses. MAAS uses this mechanism to accomplish both "status" events and "pass/fail". This general mechanism is already in place. To use it for vmware we would have to add some Reporter that worked for vmware.

b.) Modify cloud-init to call a 'report_status' function on a datasource if that function was present. We'd just change cloud-init to call that at different points in its runtime.

The only issue with this is that it very much is implementing a subset of what reporting already does do.

So I'd prefer to work towards the ReportHandler solution (a).