Hi All,

has anyone used the nova-boot command with the --user-data flag? When i try to boot an image with the user-data it boots up properly, but all of the input from the user-data does not transmit to the actual instance. when i boot the VM i do see the a user-data hash as in the image below:

When i select config drive the instance does get the user-data info and modifies the VM. i installed the neutron-dhcp-agent, neutron-metadata-agent, however, the only thing that i see in the instance cloud-init.. logs is that it is not able to find a datasource. i added the following to the nova.conf

metadata_listen = controller
metadata_host = controller
verbose = True
ec2_private_dns_show_ip = True
enabled_apis = ec2,osapi_compute,metadata

and in /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini

interface_driver = linuxbridge
dhcp_driver = neutron.agent.linux.dhcp.Dnsmasq
enable_metadata_network = True
dhcp_broadcast_reply = True

and in the metadata_agent.ini we have:

auth_region = RegionOne
auth_uri = http://controller:5000
auth_url = http://controller:35357
auth_region = RegionOne
auth_plugin = password
project_domain_id = default
user_domain_id = default
project_name = service
username = neutron
password = password
nova_metadata_ip = controller
nova_metadata_ip = controller
nova_metadata_port = 8775

I tried multiple examples of user data for example now i tried the user-data:

#cloud-config
users:
  - name: fred #UNIX username
    sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'] #setup sudo privileges if required
  - name: wilma
    ssh-authorized-keys: #insert SSH keys to enable passwordless access
      - [insert key]
    plain_text_password: 'bedrock' #provide a password, very insecure, use SSH keys where possible
write_files:
  - path: /home/README2018.md
    content: |
      ==== Fred instructions ====
      1. Write some instructions!
      ===========================

The log:

can be viewd in the pastebin: https://pastebin.com/jyq0gRE1