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This bug tracker is for errors with the documentation, use the following as a template and remove or add fields as you see fit. Convert [ ] into [x] to check boxes: - [x] This doc is inaccurate in this way: So, you think cloud init is cool and you start building on it. The more you learn about cloud init, the more you like it. Until your cloud init becomes too big to the dislikes of who every design the database schema or API. Then your calls to nova API will fail with: novaclient.exceptions.BadRequest: User data too large. User data must be no larger than 65535 bytes once base64 encoded. Your data is 66080 bytes (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-13e1d006-2c77-4ab4-903f-92f279d64cfc) At this point you invested quite sometime ... and now you have to figure a new strategy. The documentation could at least warn in advance ... https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/c6218428e9b29a2c52808ec7d27b4b21aadc0299/doc/source/user /user-data.rst Somewhere in there should be a notice about the max userdata size. ----------------------------------- Release: 18.0.4.dev11 on 2018-11-21 20:54 SHA: e90e89219410a771f9b6b0c4200edb0480360afe Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/doc/source/user/user-data.rst URL: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/user/user-data.html ** Affects: nova Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1804653 Title: Provide user data to instances in nova should explicitly tell in the docs about the size limit Status in OpenStack Compute (nova): New Bug description: This bug tracker is for errors with the documentation, use the following as a template and remove or add fields as you see fit. Convert [ ] into [x] to check boxes: - [x] This doc is inaccurate in this way: So, you think cloud init is cool and you start building on it. The more you learn about cloud init, the more you like it. Until your cloud init becomes too big to the dislikes of who every design the database schema or API. Then your calls to nova API will fail with: novaclient.exceptions.BadRequest: User data too large. User data must be no larger than 65535 bytes once base64 encoded. Your data is 66080 bytes (HTTP 400) (Request-ID: req-13e1d006-2c77-4ab4-903f- 92f279d64cfc) At this point you invested quite sometime ... and now you have to figure a new strategy. The documentation could at least warn in advance ... https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/c6218428e9b29a2c52808ec7d27b4b21aadc0299/doc/source/user /user-data.rst Somewhere in there should be a notice about the max userdata size. ----------------------------------- Release: 18.0.4.dev11 on 2018-11-21 20:54 SHA: e90e89219410a771f9b6b0c4200edb0480360afe Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/tree/doc/source/user/user-data.rst URL: https://docs.openstack.org/nova/rocky/user/user-data.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1804653/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
