Cloudbase-init VMwareGuestInfoService Invalid yaml data provided

[andrey1pf]

Hello! I have task with stack: VMWare Cloud Director(10.3), Windows Server 2016, Terraform

1. Create VM with WS iso, Instal VMWare Tool and install Cloudbase-init util. After install change config file
   cloudbase-init.conf:
   [DEFAULT]
   username=Administrator
   groups=Administrators
   inject_user_password=true
   first_logon_behaviour=always
   config_drive_raw_hhd=true
   config_drive_cdrom=true
   config_drive_vfat=true
   bsdtar_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\bin\bsdtar.exe
   mtools_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\bin
   verbose=true
   debug=true
   logdir=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\log
   logfile=cloudbase-init.log
   default_log_levels=comtypes=INFO,suds=INFO,iso8601=WARN,requests=WARN
   logging_serial_port_settings=
   mtu_use_dhcp_config=true
   ntp_use_dhcp_config=true
   local_scripts_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\LocalScripts
   metadata_services=cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.vmwareguestinfoservice.VMwareGuestInfoService
   plugins=cloudbaseinit.plugins.windows.createuser.CreateUserPlugin,cloudbaseinit.plugins.windows.setuserpassword.SetUserPasswordPlugin,cloudbaseinit.plugins.common.sshpublickeys.SetUserSSHPublicKeysPlugin,cloudbaseinit.plugins.common.userdata.UserDataPlugin

cloudbase-init-unattend.conf:
[DEFAULT]
username=Administrator
groups=Administrators
inject_user_password=true
config_drive_raw_hhd=true
config_drive_cdrom=true
config_drive_vfat=true
bsdtar_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\bin\bsdtar.exe
mtools_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\bin
verbose=true
debug=true
logdir=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\log
logfile=cloudbase-init-unattend.log
default_log_levels=comtypes=INFO,suds=INFO,iso8601=WARN,requests=WARN
logging_serial_port_settings=
mtu_use_dhcp_config=true
ntp_use_dhcp_config=true
local_scripts_path=C:\Program Files\Cloudbase Solutions\Cloudbase-Init\LocalScripts
metadata_services=cloudbaseinit.metadata.services.vmwareguestinfoservice.VMwareGuestInfoService
plugins=cloudbaseinit.plugins.common.mtu.MTUPlugin,cloudbaseinit.plugins.common.sethostname.SetHostNamePlugin,cloudbaseinit.plugins.windows.extendvolumes.ExtendVolumesPlugin
allow_reboot=false
stop_service_on_exit=false
check_latest_version=false

2. sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown after that without error my VM shutdown
3. In VMWare Cloud Director create template from this VM
4. With Terraform create new VM from template with guest properties:
   guest_properties = {
   "user-data" = base64encode(file("cloudbase-init-windows.yaml"))
   }

cloudbase-init-windows.yaml:
#cloud-config
cloudConfig:
write_files:
content: Cloudbase-Init-test
path: 'C:\test.txt'

5. When VM created test.txt doesnt created and i have only cloudbase-init log file

cloudbase-init.log:
...
ERROR cloudbaseinit.metadata.factory [-] Failed to load metadata service 'cloudbase-init.metadata.services.vmwareguestinfoservice.VMwareGuestInfoService': cloudbaseinit.utils.serialization.YamlParserConfigError: INvalid yaml data provided
ERROR cloudbaseinit.metadata.factory [-] Invalid yaml data provided.: cloudbaseinit.utils.serialization.YamlParserConfigError: Invalid yaml data provided.
...

[ader1990]

Hello,

cloudbase-init implements the same interface for cloud-config userdata as does cloud-init:
https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/examples.html#writing-out-arbitrary-files

Cloudbase-init userdata documentation and examples can be found here:
https://cloudbase-init.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userdata.html#cloud-config

In your case, cloudbase-init-windows.yaml should have this content (indentation is important):

#cloud-config
write_files:
  content: Cloudbase-Init-test
  path: 'C:\test.txt'

Thank you,
Adrian.

[andrey1pf]

Thank you for your reply! I've changed the configuration a bit.
write in cmd

<rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.metadata "
<rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.metadata.encoding base64"
<rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.userdata "
<rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.userdata.encoding base64"

but now: Failed to load metadata service 'cloudbase-init.metadata.services.vmwareguestinfoservice.VMwareGuestInfoService': binascii.Error: Invalid base64-encode string: number of data characters (21) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4

but character count is a multiple of 4

[ader1990]

Thank you for your reply! I've changed the configuration a bit. write in cmd

<rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.metadata " <rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.metadata.encoding base64" <rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.userdata " <rpctool_path> "info-set guestinfo.userdata.encoding base64"

but now: Failed to load metadata service 'cloudbase-init.metadata.services.vmwareguestinfoservice.VMwareGuestInfoService': binascii.Error: Invalid base64-encode string: number of data characters (21) cannot be 1 more than a multiple of 4

but character count is a multiple of 4

Hello,

Is this another issue from the initial one? is it possible to give more details on what exactly is the base64 string that does not get decoded?