Comment 4 for bug 1890528

@Jeff,

You may be right. I don't see anything obvious either, but in the current systemd implementation, I think you're right. All jobs should run. There was that sometimes resulted in /var/lib/cloud/instance being a directory (rather than symlink), and that could cause subsequent jobs to fail before updating status (i think). I thought that bug had been fixed by odd_bloke, but I don't see it in upstream changelog.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1531880 maybe what i was remembering.

Anyway... I don't have hard evidence to prove I'm right.