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This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 18.1-5-g40e77380-0ubuntu1

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cloud-init (18.1-5-g40e77380-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot.
    - GCE: fix reading of user-data that is not base64 encoded. (LP: #1752711)
    - doc: fix chef install from apt packages example in RTD.
    - Implement puppet 4 support [Romanos Skiadas] (LP: #1446804)
    - subp: Fix subp usage with non-ascii characters when no system locale.
      (LP: #1751051)
    - salt: configure grains in grains file rather than in minion config.
      [Daniel Wallace]

 -- Chad Smith <chad.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 01 Mar 2018 15:47:04
-0700

** Changed in: cloud-init (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  cloud-init no longer processes user data on GCE in artful

Status in cloud-init:
  Fix Committed
Status in cloud-init package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in cloud-init source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in cloud-init source package in Artful:
  Confirmed
Status in cloud-init source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  If I pass in user data like so:

  $ cat cfg
  #!/bin/sh
  touch /tmp/foobar

  $ gcloud compute instances create aa-$(date +%y%m%d-%H%M) --image-family ubuntu-1710 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud-devel --metadata-from-file user-data=cfg
  ...

  Then in the instance:

  $ ls /tmp/foobar
  $ sudo cat /var/lib/cloud/instance/user-data.txt
  $ curl "http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/user-data"; -H "Metadata-Flavor: Google"
  #/bin/sh
  touch /tmp/foobar

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