** Description changed:
User data supplied using "euca-run-instances --user-data-file" is not decoded
before being presented to the instance.
Inside the instance, "curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data"; should
fetch the decoded user data, whereas eucalyptus will return a base64 and url
encoded string. This breaks ec2-run-user-data from the ec2-init package,
rendering instance configuration using the user-data mechanism unusable.
EC2 documentation at
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2007-03-01/DeveloperGuide/AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html
states that EC2 will return decoded data (i don't have a ec2 account so i
can't confirm this):
"The user data must be base64-encoded before being submitted to the API. The
API command-line tools perform the base64-encoding for you. The data will be
base64 decoded before being presented to the instance."
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Karmic release notes:
user-data not usable by guest instances
Starting an instance with euca-run-instances and user-data (either using
- the -d option the -f option) will store the user data in base64
- encoding. Accessing the user data from the instance at
- http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data will return the user data in
- base64 encoding. Because of this bug ec2-init is unable make use of
- user-data. In order to use this data it must first be decoded. A fix for
- this issue is expected to be provided in a post-release update
- immediately after the Ubuntu 9.10 release.
+ the -d, --user-data option or the -f, --user-data-file option) will
+ store the user data in base64 encoding. Accessing the user data from
+ the instance at http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data will return the
+ user data in base64 encoding. Because of this bug ec2-init is unable
+ make use of user-data. In order to use this data it must first be
+ decoded. A fix for this issue is expected to be provided in a post-
+ release update immediately after the Ubuntu 9.10 release.
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** Changed in: ubuntu-release-notes
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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User data is not parsed correctly by Eucalyptus in some cases
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461156
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