5 second delay failing to communicate with OpenStack HTTP endpoint during boot on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

[Dan Watkins]

The eventual traceback:

2019-06-19 16:27:02,468 - util.py[DEBUG]: Failed fetching meta-data/ from url http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/ec2_utils.py", line 178, in _get_instance_metadata
    response = caller(md_url)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/url_helper.py", line 107, in read_file_or_url
    exception_cb=exception_cb)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cloudinit/url_helper.py", line 306, in readurl
    raise excps[-1]
cloudinit.url_helper.UrlError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/

(I can confirm several minutes after instance launch that I still see the same 404 error.)

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3392