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[Scott Moser <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
  The idea of supporting user-data in base64 is fine, and common across many other datasources
  However, you can't just attempt to decode user-data as base64 and if that works assume the user wanted you to.
  There could be people providing base64 code to cloud-init that they intended to be ignored by cloud-init.
  This would change that behavior.

  Instead, you should make the user need to indicate that this is base64 somehow.
  I think you can set other variables in opennebula, right?  The solution in other datasources is to just have:
USER_DATA='aGkgbW9tCg=='
USER_DATA_ENCODING="base64"

  where if not found, USER_DATA_ENCODING defaults to None.

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