Comment 9 for bug 1884071

@Bryan,

So the response from Hetzner is: No we can't change, someone else should.
Its not very helpful.

Motivating factors for that response:
 a.) Hetzner would have work to do to implement that feature
 b.) Hetzner would potentially break some existing users.

Those are the same arguments from cloud-init side for not transparently doing this in cloud-init.

One last question: Is there a limit to the size of Hetzner user-data?

I've put up a pull request at https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/448 . I'm pretty sure that it should support your usecase of base64 encoded gzipped data, but I would like your feedback/test.