[JCLOUDS-481] Ensure cloud-init works with user-data with nova

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2, 1.8.0
• Component/s: jclouds-compute, jclouds-examples
• Assignee: Zack Shoylev
• Reporter: Zack Shoylev
• Created: 01/Mar/14 02:07
• Updated: 04/Mar/14 04:15
• Resolved: 04/Mar/14 04:15

Description

I also would like to add a working example.

It seems the way to determine right now this works is to check
/var/log/cloud-init.log

Cloud-init also works only for some images.
Also, it needs to be better documented jclouds already base64 encodes user-data.