example metadata

[bu3alwa]

Just a heads up to this command

$(sed 's~NETWORK_CONFIG~'"$(gzip -c9 <network.config.yaml | \ base64)"'~' <metadata.json | gzip -9 | base64)

it was causing me issues and took me a while to figure it out. base64 needs a flag -w0 or else it might error out for some people.

[akutz]

Hi @madmanali93,

Thanks! What it really needs to be is:

$(sed 's~NETWORK_CONFIG~'"$(gzip -c9 <network.config.yaml | { base64 -w0 2>/dev/null || base64; } )"'~' <metadata.json | gzip -9 | { base64 -w0 2>/dev/null || base64; })

That way it works on both Linux and macOS.

[bu3alwa]

Thanks I'll start using that. Hope you could update the readme for other people that might get the issue.

[akutz]

This issue is being closed because this datasource has been merged into cloud-init (canonical/cloud-init#953):

Component	Source	Tests
Datasource	DataSourceVMware.py	test_vmware.py
Identification	ds-identify	test_ds_identify.py
Documentation	vmware.rst

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