** Description changed: + === Begin SRU Template === + [Impact] + In bug 1660385, we made imitating the EC2 datasource more difficult. + By design, that broke some users or platforms who have done so in the past. + + The change here gives users who were using the Ubuntu images in a low-tech + "No Cloud" fashion an easier way to regain that functionality. + + The solution was to read the 'system-serial-number' field in DMI data and + consider it as as input to the nocloud datasource in a similar way to + what we had done in the past with the kernel command line. + + [Test Case] + FIXME + + [Regression Potential] + The code attempts to parse the 'system-serial-number' entry in dmi data as string with data in it. If that field had the string 'ds=nocloud' that was not intended as consumable for cloud-init, a false positive could occur and an exception cause the NoCloud datasource to not read data from another location. + + This seems somewhat unlikely and other paths should result in simply no + new action being taken. + + [Other Info] + Upstream commit at + https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=802e7cb2da8 + + === End SRU Template === + + Vladimir suggested this in bug 1660385 comment 12 [1]. The idea would be to have a supported way that you could seed images with cloud-init using Nocloud without any tinkering in the image. That would mean - a.) no second block device - b.) no usage of kernel command line. + a.) no second block device + b.) no usage of kernel command line. -- [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1660385/comments/12
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