"Layered" MultipartMime for user_data no longer works

[Steve Lipinski]

Trying to have Nested MultipartMime resources like the server_init resource in the following example no longer works:

https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/blob/master/hot/software-config/example-cloud-init.yaml

The referenced resource:
      - config: {get_resource: three_four_init}
        type: multipart

does not seem to be included anymore.

[Steve Lipinski (steve-lipinski)]

This template copied directly from the example:
heat_template_version: 2013-05-23
description: >
  This template demonstrates the different ways configuration resources
  can be used to specify boot-time cloud-init configuration.
parameters:
  key_name:
    type: string
  flavor:
    type: string
  image:
    type: string

resources:
  the_sg:
    type: OS::Neutron::SecurityGroup
    properties:
      name: the_sg
      description: Ping and SSH
      rules:
      - protocol: icmp
      - protocol: tcp
        port_range_min: 22
        port_range_max: 22

  one_init:
    type: OS::Heat::CloudConfig
    properties:
      cloud_config:
        write_files:
        - path: /tmp/one
          content: "The one is bar"

  five_init:
    # this resource demonstrates multiple cloud-config resources
    # with a merge_how strategy
    type: OS::Heat::CloudConfig
    properties:
      cloud_config:
        merge_how: 'dict(recurse_array,no_replace)+list(append)'
        write_files:
        - path: /tmp/five
          content: "The five is bar"

  two_init:
    # this resource is a simple shell script. No inputs or outputs are
    # specified since this is not supported by cloud-init but values
    # could be inserted into the script using str_replace.
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: ungrouped
      config: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "The two is bar" > /tmp/two

  three_init:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: ungrouped
      config: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "The three is bar" > /tmp/three

  four_init:
    type: OS::Heat::SoftwareConfig
    properties:
      group: ungrouped
      config: |
        #!/bin/sh
        echo "The four is bar" > /tmp/four

  three_four_init:
    type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime
    properties:
      parts:
      - config: {get_resource: three_init}
      - config: {get_resource: four_init}

  server_init:
    type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime
    properties:
      parts:
      - config: {get_resource: one_init}
      - config: {get_resource: two_init}
        # referencing another OS::Heat::MultipartMime resource will result
        # in each part of that resource being appended to this one.
      - config: {get_resource: three_four_init}
        type: multipart
      - config: {get_resource: five_init}

  server:
    type: OS::Nova::Server
    properties:
      image: {get_param: image}
      flavor: {get_param: flavor}
      key_name: {get_param: key_name}
      security_groups:
      - {get_resource: the_sg}
      user_data_format: RAW
      user_data:
        get_resource: server_init

Does not work.

/tmp/three and /tmp/four are not created:
# ls /tmp
five one two

I have seen similar with other templates I have created.
If in include a OS::Heat::MultipartMime resource within another OS::Heat::MultipartMime resource as in:
  server_init:
    type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime
    properties:
      parts:
..
      - config: {get_resource: three_four_init}
        type: multipart
..

The three_four_init resource does not seem to get included.

[Steve Baker (steve-stevebaker)]

interesting, that is the same template which works for me. Can you please attach the contents of this file on the created server?

/var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt (my guess is that the parts will be there, but will contain {get_resource...} instead of the script)

[Steve Lipinski (steve-lipinski)]

Here is the user-data.txt.

Seems 3 and 4 are missing altogether.

[Steve Lipinski (steve-lipinski)]

That was with this:
    type: OS::Heat::MultipartMime
    properties:
      parts:
        - config: {get_resource: one_init}
        - config: {get_resource: two_init}
        - config: {get_resource: three_four_init}
          type: multipart
        - config: {get_resource: five_init}

[Steve Baker (steve-stevebaker)]

I still can't reproduce this with current heat master. Could you please reproduce again and state what version of heat you have installed?

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