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Thank you. ** Changed in: cloud-init Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1884071 Title: gzipped and base64 encoded user-data leads to failure Status in cloud-init: Fix Released Bug description: Issue is here as well: https://github.com/terraform-providers /terraform-provider-aws/issues/8244 In /var/log/cloud-init.log this is the only WARNING message (there are no ERROR messages): 2020-06-18 12:16:59,413 - __init__.py[WARNING]: Unhandled non- multipart (text/x-not-multipart) userdata: 'b'H4sIAAAAAAAA/8RV3W4bNxO9'...' I can even pull the file from the created VM and it can be extracted and shows to be proper formatting and everything: curl -L http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data/ | base64 --decode | gunzip Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="MIMEBOUNDARY" MIME-Version: 1.0 --MIMEBOUNDARY Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/cloud-config Mime-Version: 1.0 #cloud-config # set locale locale: en_GB.UTF-8 # ensure time sync between all nodes ntp: enabled: true ntp_client: chrony # hides ssh keys in console ssh_fp_console_blacklist: [ssh-dss, ssh-dsa, ssh-ed25519] ssh_key_console_blacklist: [ssh-dss, ssh-dsa, ssh-ed25519] # upgrade all packages and install necessary ones package_upgrade: true package_reboot_if_required: true packages: - apt-transport-https - ca-certificates - curl - gnupg-agent - software-properties-common - build-essential - libssl-dev - make # set random root password and disable password login for ssh chpasswd: expire: false list: | root:RANDOM ssh_pwauth: no # create sre user with sudo privs and set autrhorized key users: - name: sre groups: sudo lock_passwd: true ssh_authorized_keys: - censored sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'] shell: /bin/bash --MIMEBOUNDARY Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/cloud-config Mime-Version: 1.0 #cloud-config # Configure Floating IP (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) # Not required when using https://github.com/costela/hcloud-ip-floater #write_files: # - content: | # network: # version: 2 # ethernets: # eth0: # addresses: # - ${floating_ip}/32 # path: /etc/netplan/60-floating-ip.yaml # Install Keepalived runcmd: - cd /root/ - wget http://www.keepalived.org/software/keepalived-2.1.2.tar.gz - tar xvf keepalived-2.1.2.tar.gz - cd keepalived-2.1.2 - ./configure - make - sudo make install final_message: "The system is finally up, after $UPTIME seconds" When I use the exact same userdata as above but extracted and passed as plain text it works without issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1884071/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp