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Enabling phone-home previously required the user-data document root to be a #cloud-config mapping. A #cloud-config-archive (a YAML sequence) was rejected with "userData ... must be valid cloud-init YAML to enable phone home", even though cloud-init merges each archive part independently.

Additionally, the check for the cloud config type was very lenient, allowing things like

#!/bin/bash
export FOO: bar

to fail silently, as they are valid YAML maps. This is now fixed so that #!/bin/bash scripts and phoneHomeEnabled cannot be used simultaneously.

This was tested in our own hardware. It is needed for us as we use #cloud-config-archive internally.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for cloud-config archives and standard cloud-config formats.
    • Phone-home settings can be added, replaced, or removed while preserving unrelated content.
    • User-data processing supports nested configuration and scalar archive entries.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented duplicate phone-home entries and preserved archive headers.
    • Improved handling of YAML aliases, anchors, merge keys, comments, and duplicate entries.
    • Disabling phone-home preserves unsupported user data.
    • Rejected unsupported Jinja-templated archives when enabling phone-home.
    • Improved validation and error reporting for malformed user-data.

Walkthrough

Phone-home user-data processing now uses shared serialized-data helpers for cloud-config mappings, archives, and Jinja-prefixed formats. Create, batch-create, and update flows apply serialized results and preserve unsupported data when disabling phone-home.

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Phone-home processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialized user-data contract
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go, rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go
The helpers validate YAML roots, update mappings and archive entries, preserve headers and node properties, resolve aliases and merge keys, and return serialized user data or errors.
API model integration
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go, rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go
Create, batch-create, and update flows use the shared helpers. Unsupported data is rejected when enabling and remains unchanged when disabling.
Behavior validation
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance_test.go, rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem_test.go, rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go
Tests cover archives, aliases, merge keys, headers, Jinja formats, nested data, scalar entries, empty results, rendering errors, and serialized output.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a16c2

The PR changes phone-home user-data parsing and rewriting to support archives, but the current head still has a test-package compile failure and unresolved cases that can corrupt or retain phone-home configuration for templated, merged, or nonstandard YAML. These issues make the change unsafe to merge until corrected.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant APIRequest
  participant EnablePhoneHomeInUserData
  participant DisablePhoneHomeInUserData
  participant YAMLContent
  APIRequest->>EnablePhoneHomeInUserData: enable phone-home with URL
  EnablePhoneHomeInUserData->>YAMLContent: parse and update user data
  YAMLContent-->>EnablePhoneHomeInUserData: serialized result or error
  APIRequest->>DisablePhoneHomeInUserData: disable phone-home with URL
  DisablePhoneHomeInUserData->>YAMLContent: remove matching content
  YAMLContent-->>DisablePhoneHomeInUserData: serialized result or unchanged data
  EnablePhoneHomeInUserData-->>APIRequest: return updated user data
  DisablePhoneHomeInUserData-->>APIRequest: return updated or unchanged user data
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go`:
- Around line 125-130: Replace all four invalid new expressions in the test
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- Around line 249-256: Update userDataHeader to read documentRoot.HeadComment
first, falling back to the first child’s HeadComment when needed, so empty
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go`:
- Around line 314-324: Before calling RemovePhoneHomeFromUserData in the
archive-entry processing flow, validate root with PhoneHomeSupportsUserDataRoot;
preserve and continue with unsupported roots instead of returning an error. Add
a regression test covering a typed archive entry whose script-header content
parses as a mapping and verifies disabling phone-home succeeds while the entry
remains unchanged.
- Around line 321-340: The archive-entry filtering flow around
RemovePhoneHomeFromUserData must detect removals within nested
autoinstall.user-data mappings, not only changes to root.Content. Update the
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- Line 818: Update the post-RemovePhoneHomeFromUserData handling at
rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go lines 818-818, 1138-1138, and 1430-1430,
plus rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go lines 827-827, so empty
cloud-config archives retain their header and supported empty sequence; only
blank an empty mapping root, while preserving serialization for archive roots.

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- 375: This covers the separate header-loss case when the retained first entry
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- Line 375: Update the archive-header check in isCloudConfigArchive to compare
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using strings.HasPrefix. Add a regression case where a remaining entry comment
begins with the archive header but has extra text, ensuring it does not trigger
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411-426: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-scalar archive types before processing content.

cloudConfigArchiveContent accepts mapping- or sequence-valued type fields when content is scalar. removePhoneHomeFromArchive can then modify these unsupported entries.

Check typeNode.Kind before accepting the content. Add a regression test that confirms such entries remain unchanged.

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go` around lines 411 - 426, Update
cloudConfigArchiveContent to reject archive entries whose typeNode is non-scalar
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Found one compatibility issue in the new cloud-config header classification.

header := userDataHeader(documentRoot)

return header == "" || header == SiteCloudConfig
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Valid Jinja-templated cloud-config is rejected here. Cloud-init supports a two-line header of ## template: jinja followed by #cloud-config. userDataHeader returns only the first line, so this check sees ## template: jinja and returns false even when the YAML root is a mapping. As a result, enabling phone-home now rejects previously accepted, valid cloud-init user-data as invalid YAML. Please recognize that exact two-line sequence while continuing to reject Jinja shell scripts (## template: jinja followed by #!), and add regression tests for both cases. See: https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/25.1/topics/format.html#jinja-template

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good point. since it was getting a bit complex, I refactored and simplified the logic.

cloud init is now split into text header + yaml document, where the header is either a single line (such as #cloud-config) or the template ninja + header, rather than treating headers as the first yaml node's comment

logic was also duplicated across operating_system and instance, so I moved some of it here

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rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go (1)

767-794: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

One phone-home application block is copied across four request flows. The enable/disable selection, the ErrUnsupportedUserData handling, and the result assignment are duplicated per request type. The copies have already diverged in their failure message, which shows the maintenance cost.

  • rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go#L767-L794: introduce a single helper that applies phone-home to merged user-data and returns the validation error, then call it here and from the two sibling blocks at Lines 1041-1068 and 1290-1317.
  • rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/operatingsystem.go#L739-L766: replace this block with a call to the same helper so both models report identical errors.
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go` around lines 767 - 794, Introduce one
helper for phone-home application that selects enable/disable behavior, handles
util.ErrUnsupportedUserData and other errors, and returns the validation error
plus updated user data; use it to replace the duplicated blocks in
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- Around line 118-140: The parseUserData flow should preserve arbitrary leading
YAML comments instead of treating every first # line as a format header. Update
splitUserDataHeader/headerFormat handling so only supported format headers are
removed and recognized; otherwise parse the full input as YAML, including author
comments, while retaining existing archive and cloud-config validation. Add a
regression test covering mapping user-data beginning with an unrelated comment.

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- Around line 767-794: Introduce one helper for phone-home application that
selects enable/disable behavior, handles util.ErrUnsupportedUserData and other
errors, and returns the validation error plus updated user data; use it to
replace the duplicated blocks in rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go lines
767-794, 1041-1068, and 1290-1317, and
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474-478: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the serialized enable result to the disable helper.

Line 474 passes &tt.userData, so the test disables the original fixture instead of the output returned by EnablePhoneHomeInUserData. The test can pass even if the two public helpers disagree about serialized headers or archive structure.

-			disabled, err := DisablePhoneHomeInUserData(&tt.userData, phoneHomeURL)
+			disabled, err := DisablePhoneHomeInUserData(enabled, phoneHomeURL)
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go` around lines 474 - 478, Update
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A fresh review of the refactored head found three remaining archive-handling edge cases.

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documentRoot := document.Content[0]

switch format := headerFormat(header); {
case documentRoot.Kind == yaml.SequenceNode && format == SiteCloudConfigArchive:

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Jinja-wrapped cloud-config archives are accepted even though cloud-init cannot dispatch them. headerFormat discards the Jinja wrapper, so this branch accepts ## template: jinja followed by #cloud-config-archive. Cloud-init's default Jinja handler only delegates to cloud-config, shell-script, and boothook handlers; it has no archive sub-handler, so it ignores this payload and phone-home never runs. Please restrict Jinja support to formats that handler can dispatch and change the Jinja-archive test to expect ErrUnsupportedUserData. See https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/cloudinit/stages.py and https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/cloudinit/handlers/jinja_template.py

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done, now ## template: jinja followed by #cloud-config-archive returns an error

Comment thread rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go Outdated
// carries no string content. A part with no explicit type is cloud-config,
// matching cloud-init's default.
func cloudConfigArchiveContent(part *yaml.Node) *yaml.Node {
if part == nil || part.Kind != yaml.MappingNode {

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Handle scalar cloud-config archive parts. This rejects every non-mapping part, but cloud-init explicitly accepts a scalar string archive entry by converting it to an entry with content and inferring its type. A scalar part containing #cloud-config and phone_home is therefore executed by cloud-init, while disabling here leaves it untouched and enabling appends a second block. Please normalize scalar parts or return their scalar node as content, with enable/disable regression coverage. See https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/cloudinit/user_data.py#L254-L275

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nice catch. scalar entries are now returned as cloud config archive content

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return nil
}

if typeNode := mappingValue(part, archiveEntryType); typeNode != nil &&

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Preserve entries whose type is non-scalar. This checks only typeNode.Value; mapping and sequence nodes have an empty value, so a malformed structured type is treated like an omitted type. Disabling phone-home on type: {invalid: value} can then remove the content and drop the entire archive entry—I reproduced it becoming #cloud-config-archive\n[]. Please reject/preserve non-scalar type nodes before processing their content and add a regression test.

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done, only correctly formatted type nodes are parsed now, and added a test for it

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One remaining archive-handling issue found during re-review.

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kept := archiveRoot.Content[:0]

for _, part := range archiveRoot.Content {
content := cloudConfigArchiveContent(part)

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Avoid leaving dangling YAML aliases. Archive entries may use YAML anchors and aliases. If an anchored entry contains only the matching phone_home block, this loop removes the anchor-carrying mapping but retains an AliasNode that references it because cloudConfigArchiveContent ignores aliases. The rendered user-data then contains an alias with no anchor and cannot be parsed (yaml: unknown anchor 'phone' referenced). Resolve alias entries when classifying them, or remove aliases whose target was dropped, and add a regression test with an anchored phone-home entry followed by *phone.

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ok yes, I didn't take into account YAML aliases at all. now everything resolves the aliases, and an additional phase at the end cleans up dangling aliases or inlines them.

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rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go (2)

373-373: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Hoist the repeated phoneHomeURL constant to package scope.

The same literal is declared as a local constant in seven test functions in this file (Lines 373, 431, 525, 572, 627, 700, 715). A single package-level constant removes the duplication and keeps the fixtures in step if the address ever changes.

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go` at line 373, Define one
package-level phoneHomeURL constant in util_test.go and remove the seven
repeated local declarations from the affected test functions, keeping all
existing references unchanged.

445-451: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the chained node lookups so a failure reports instead of panicking.

mappingNodeValue returns nil when the key is absent or the node is not a mapping. Several new assertions dereference that result directly, so a regression produces a nil-pointer panic rather than a readable assertion failure. A panic aborts the remaining tests in the package, and this suite runs serially with -p 1.

The affected sites are Line 449 (.Decode on the runcmd lookup), Line 465, Lines 482, 502, 504, and Lines 590-591.

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 		var runcmd [][]string
-		require.NoError(t, mappingNodeValue(documentRoot, "runcmd").Decode(&runcmd))
+		runcmdNode := mappingNodeValue(documentRoot, "runcmd")
+		require.NotNil(t, runcmdNode, "runcmd must survive removal")
+		require.NoError(t, runcmdNode.Decode(&runcmd))
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go`:
- Around line 334-349: Reorder the switch in the part-processing flow around
disablePhoneHome so case err != nil is evaluated before the stripped == nil and
ErrUnsupportedUserData conditions, propagating rendering errors instead of
keeping the part. Add a regression test covering an archive part whose content
fails rendering and assert that the error is returned.

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go`:
- Line 373: Define one package-level phoneHomeURL constant in util_test.go and
remove the seven repeated local declarations from the affected test functions,
keeping all existing references unchanged.
- Around line 445-451: Guard every affected mappingNodeValue lookup with
require.NotNil before dereferencing or calling Decode, including the runcmd
lookup and the sites around lines 465, 482, 502, 504, and 590-591. Keep the
existing assertions and decoding behavior unchanged after the lookup is
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rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go (1)

285-304: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Handle YAML merge keys when disabling phone-home.

cloud-init resolves << merges before processing the configuration, but removePhoneHome scans only direct keys. A merged phone_home block therefore remains, while the callers persist PhoneHomeEnabled=false because they ignore unsupported-user-data errors during disable. Resolve merged mappings, or reject the disable operation without changing the stored state. Add a regression test.

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go` around lines 285 - 304, Update
removePhoneHome and its callers to handle YAML merge-key mappings before
disabling phone-home, ensuring merged phone_home blocks are removed;
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PhoneHomeEnabled=false when unsupported user data remains. Add a regression test
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- Around line 285-304: Update removePhoneHome and its callers to handle YAML
merge-key mappings before disabling phone-home, ensuring merged phone_home
blocks are removed; alternatively, reject the disable operation before
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Here are some finding that we may need to consider :-

  • Enable silently destroys the tenant's own phone-home config (empirically confirmed; the disable path's doc comment promises the opposite). EnablePhoneHomeInUserData removes all phone_home blocks (url=nil) before appending NICo's, while DisablePhoneHomeInUserData only removes site-URL blocks ("Blocks reporting elsewhere are somebody else's"). A tenant's custom callback (own URL, post list, tries) is permanently deleted at enable and not restored at disable. The PR's own test asserts the replacement, so if it's intended, document it in the API description but in an archive both parts can coexist (later-part precedence), so preserving foreign-URL blocks is feasible and more honest.

  • All three request types now return "failed to insert phone-home into userData" for disable failures (instance.go:788/1062/1311) — the pre-PR code had a distinct disable message; this points the debugging user at the wrong path. Which leads to:

  • Test gaps worth filling while here: parts with encoding: b64/gzip (currently treated as plain text — an encoded phone_home block survives disable and gets duplicated by enable, with no test pinning intended behavior); enable→disable→enable round-trips (checkbox toggling is the primary UI flow, and disable's emptied-archive [] output feeding enable is unexercised); and sibling-key preservation when enable strips phone_home from a part that carries other keys.

// parts left empty and reporting whether it changed anything. A part is
// user-data in its own right, so each goes through the same path as a whole
// document.
func removePhoneHomeParts(archiveRoot *yaml.Node, url *string) (bool, error) {

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removePhoneHomeParts drops an anchored phone-home part while keeping alias parts that reference it, and cloudConfigArchiveContent returns nil for yaml.AliasNode so aliases are never inspected. Running disable on - &a {…phone_home…}\n- *a produces #cloud-config-archive\n- *a\n, which fails to re-parse ("unknown anchor 'a' referenced") — invalid user-data stored in the DB, cloud-init parse failure on next provision, and the aliased phone-home copy survives anyway. Resolve aliases before filtering (or reject anchor-bearing archives with a clear 400).

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I'm not sure this was reviewed on an older commit, but I couldn't reproduce this - there's a test here https://github.com/ori-edge/nico-infra-controller/blob/a16c2e64a3eaeec114aa320d5df7f4b344fe80a8/rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go#L405-L425

autoinstallNode := mappingValue(documentRoot, autoinstallName)
if autoinstallNode != nil {

if autoinstallNode := mappingValue(documentRoot, autoinstallName); autoinstallNode != nil {

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enable/removal asymmetry for autoinstall parts. The #cloud-config mapping path deliberately injects under autoinstall.user-data ("since that is the config the installed system runs"), and the archive removal path even handles nested-autoinstall blocks (there's a test) — but the archive enable path only appends a new root-level part. For an Ubuntu-autoinstall archive, phone_home lands in the installer environment instead of the installed system, so the provisioning-complete callback never fires from the target OS — the exact miss the mapping path's redirection exists to prevent.

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ok yes, it was a simple new element in the archive, but I added support to edit existing autoinstall blocks in the latest commit

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313-398: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fold these scenario-specific top-level tests into the table-driven TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchive.

TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchivePreservesHeaderWhenEmptied, TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchivePreservesUnsupportedEntry, TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchivePreservesHeaderOnCommentedEntry, and TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchivePreservesStructuredTypeEntry are four top-level tests for scenarios of the same behavior that TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchive already covers as a table. The coding guidelines require one table-driven top-level test per changed function.

Move each scenario into a case of the existing table, or into a t.Run subtest of that single top-level test. Cases that assert on the whole rendered document can carry a want string field, and cases that assert on structure can carry an assertion closure.

As per coding guidelines: "Before requesting review, group every changed Go function's scenarios under one table-driven top-level test. Treat scenario-specific top-level tests as a review failure even when the test suite passes."

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go` around lines 313 - 398, Fold
the four scenario-specific tests into the existing table-driven
TestRemovePhoneHomeFromArchive, using additional cases or t.Run subtests.
Preserve each scenario’s assertions, adding fields such as want or an assertion
closure as needed for rendered-document and structural checks, and remove the
separate top-level test functions.

Source: Coding guidelines

rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go (1)

151-160: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reject Jinja-templated cloud-config mappings that require round-tripping.

parseUserData accepts Jinja mappings, then insertPhoneHome and renderUserData serialize them with yaml.v3. An expression such as hostname: {{ v1.local_hostname }} becomes a flow mapping, so cloud-init receives corrupted user-data. Apply the existing templated-archive protection to top-level mappings and add a regression test.

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go` around lines 151 - 160, Update
parseUserData’s format validation switch to reject Jinja-templated top-level
YAML mappings when the format is empty or SiteCloudConfig, matching the existing
ErrUnsupportedUserData behavior for templated archives; preserve support for
non-templated mappings and sequences, and add a regression test covering a Jinja
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rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go (1)

780-808: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider extracting the phone-home application block into one function.

The same 18-line block appears three times in this file (Lines 780-808, 1052-1080, 1295-1327) and once more in operatingsystem.go. The divergent error message that phoneHomeUserDataError now fixes was a direct consequence of this duplication. A single helper keeps the enable/disable contract in one place.

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// applyPhoneHome returns the user-data to store, or nil when the caller must
// leave the field unchanged.
func applyPhoneHome(userData *string, enabled bool, phoneHomeURL string, unsupportedErr error) (*string, error) {
	var (
		result *string
		err    error
	)
	if enabled {
		result, err = util.EnablePhoneHomeInUserData(userData, phoneHomeURL)
	} else {
		result, err = util.DisablePhoneHomeInUserData(userData, phoneHomeURL)
	}

	switch {
	case errors.Is(err, util.ErrUnsupportedUserData):
		// The UI always sends false when the box is unchecked, so on disable
		// such user-data is left alone rather than rejected.
		if enabled {
			return nil, validation.Errors{"userData": unsupportedErr}
		}

		return nil, nil
	case err != nil:
		return nil, phoneHomeUserDataError(enabled)
	}

	return result, nil
}

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go` around lines 780 - 808, Extract the
duplicated phone-home application logic into a shared applyPhoneHome helper,
reusing the existing EnablePhoneHomeInUserData, DisablePhoneHomeInUserData,
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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util_test.go`:
- Around line 313-398: Fold the four scenario-specific tests into the existing
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subtests. Preserve each scenario’s assertions, adding fields such as want or an
assertion closure as needed for rendered-document and structural checks, and
remove the separate top-level test functions.

In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/util/util.go`:
- Around line 151-160: Update parseUserData’s format validation switch to reject
Jinja-templated top-level YAML mappings when the format is empty or
SiteCloudConfig, matching the existing ErrUnsupportedUserData behavior for
templated archives; preserve support for non-templated mappings and sequences,
and add a regression test covering a Jinja expression such as hostname: {{
v1.local_hostname }}.

---

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In `@rest-api/api/pkg/api/model/instance.go`:
- Around line 780-808: Extract the duplicated phone-home application logic into
a shared applyPhoneHome helper, reusing the existing EnablePhoneHomeInUserData,
DisablePhoneHomeInUserData, ErrUnsupportedUserData, phoneHomeUserDataError, and
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Here are some finding that we may need to consider :-

  • Enable silently destroys the tenant's own phone-home config (empirically confirmed; the disable path's doc comment promises the opposite). EnablePhoneHomeInUserData removes all phone_home blocks (url=nil) before appending NICo's, while DisablePhoneHomeInUserData only removes site-URL blocks ("Blocks reporting elsewhere are somebody else's"). A tenant's custom callback (own URL, post list, tries) is permanently deleted at enable and not restored at disable. The PR's own test asserts the replacement, so if it's intended, document it in the API description but in an archive both parts can coexist (later-part precedence), so preserving foreign-URL blocks is feasible and more honest.
  • All three request types now return "failed to insert phone-home into userData" for disable failures (instance.go:788/1062/1311) — the pre-PR code had a distinct disable message; this points the debugging user at the wrong path. Which leads to:
  • Test gaps worth filling while here: parts with encoding: b64/gzip (currently treated as plain text — an encoded phone_home block survives disable and gets duplicated by enable, with no test pinning intended behavior); enable→disable→enable round-trips (checkbox toggling is the primary UI flow, and disable's emptied-archive [] output feeding enable is unexercised); and sibling-key preservation when enable strips phone_home from a part that carries other keys.

Thank you for the review.

Enable/Disable silently destroying customer config is part of the underlying design that I didn't want to change with this PR. Ideally we'd store the original config provided by the user (both OS and Instance settings) and then only do enable at runtime (when provisioning new instances) but that goes way beyond the scope of this PR. Regarding archives, it's not true that there's later part precedence, it depends on the settings (merge_how etc).

Error messages - yes that's true, I restored the disable message. I also added some more tests covering the areas you suggested.

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documentRoot := document.Content[0]

switch format := headerFormat(header); {
case declaresFormat(header, jinjaTemplateHeader) && format == SiteCloudConfigArchive:

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parseUserData rejects a jinja header only when the format below it is #cloud-config-archive, so a jinja #cloud-config document flows through enable and disable, gets YAML-parsed, edited, and re-marshaled. The archive-part path skips jinja parts for exactly the hazard that creates, its own comment at line 442 says "yaml reads {{ x }} as a mapping and would write it back as one", but the same template at the top level is rewritten. A template whose jinja constructs fail YAML parsing is safely rejected, so the exposure is templates that happen to parse, for example foo: {{ ds.x }}, which round-trips as a flow mapping and no longer renders as a template. We should treat a jinja header the same at both levels: reject enable with ErrUnsupportedUserData and leave disable alone?

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jinja documents are rejected for cloud-config-archive because in general cloudInit refuses them.
it's true that YAML parsing jinja documents is not safe in some edge cases, but that was the behavior we had before. I'm happy to reject jinja headers for this phoneHome case, let me know if that's what you want

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Recommend: reject on enable, leave alone on disable, at both the top level and inside archive parts. The archive path is currently inconsistent, since it refuses to insert into a jinja part but will still rewrite one during the strip pass.

// which is the document phone-home belongs in. The autoinstall has to be one
// insertPhoneHome can reach into, so a document it would reject is passed over
// rather than failing the whole request.
func installsATargetSystem(documentRoot *yaml.Node) bool {

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When an archive part carries an autoinstall whose user-data is a non-mapping, installsATargetSystem passes the part over and phone-home is appended as a root-level part. For an autoinstall flow that block then runs in the installer environment, not on the installed system, so phone-home reports the wrong boot, silently. The non-archive path rejects the same document ("autoinstall user-data must be a mapping to insert phone-home"). Should the archive path reject it too, rather than fall back to a part the target system never runs?

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sure, unified the behavior

case documentRoot.Kind == yaml.MappingNode && len(documentRoot.Content) == 0:
// Nothing but phone-home was in there, so no user-data is left. An
// emptied archive renders instead, keeping its header.
return new(""), nil

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An archive whose parts are all emptied renders as #cloud-config-archive over an empty sequence, while an emptied mapping blanks the field entirely. The asymmetry is commented but the outcome differs for the caller: one instance ends up with empty-string user-data, the other with a header-only document the DB keeps. If cloud-init accepts an empty archive that is fine as is; worth one test row pinning that rendering so the choice is explicit rather than incidental.

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in my opinion, it doesn't really matter - as an empty cloud-config-archive is the same as an empty file. adding tests would just solidify something that we're happy to change in the future.

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I don't think we need more tests on this.

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/ok to test 064f542

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Thanks for the implementation and all the changes @goncalo-rodrigues

Please rebase and evaluate against merged PR #5156. 5156 introduced nicoAuthoredPhoneHome in all four update/create paths. When the request supplies no user-data and the stored blob was saved with phone-home enabled, the block is removed by key (nil URL filter) because the frozen URL may predate a site.phoneHomeUrl change (the :7777 removal). This PR's public DisablePhoneHomeInUserData takes url string and cannot express that. The private disablePhoneHome(userData *string, url *string) already supports nil, so the fix is to expose the *string form (or add DisableAllPhoneHomeInUserData) and pass phoneHomeURLFilter from the five call sites.

Also we should update the docs at https://github.com/NVIDIA/infra-controller/blob/main/docs/configuration/tenant_management.md#phone-home

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documentRoot := document.Content[0]

switch format := headerFormat(header); {
case declaresFormat(header, jinjaTemplateHeader) && format == SiteCloudConfigArchive:

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Recommend: reject on enable, leave alone on disable, at both the top level and inside archive parts. The archive path is currently inconsistent, since it refuses to insert into a jinja part but will still rewrite one during the strip pass.

case documentRoot.Kind == yaml.MappingNode && len(documentRoot.Content) == 0:
// Nothing but phone-home was in there, so no user-data is left. An
// emptied archive renders instead, keeping its header.
return new(""), nil

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I don't think we need more tests on this.

// way cloud-config is written from scratch, so no edit to the document can lose
// it - not even removing the first key or part, which is where yaml would
// otherwise keep it.
func renderUserData(header string, documentRoot *yaml.Node) (*string, error) {

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cloud-init lowercases and strips leading whitespace before matching the header. NICo requires the header on byte zero. A blank line before #cloud-config-archive makes enable a 400 and makes disable silently leave a live block in place. An indented #cloud-config loses its header on disable. We should trim before splitting.

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Recommend: reject on enable, leave alone on disable, at both the top level and inside archive parts. The archive path is currently inconsistent, since it refuses to insert into a jinja part but will still rewrite one during the strip pass.

Ok, I'll take the recommendation. I was trying to make jinja templates work, but there's a lot of edge cases - so now jinja templates return an error on enable, but are left alone on disables. In a cloud-config-archive, the user can still add templates to their archive, but those won't get any phone homes disabled if they contain one.

cloud-init lowercases and strips leading whitespace before matching the header. NICo requires the header on byte zero. A blank line before #cloud-config-archive makes enable a 400 and makes disable silently leave a live block in place. An indented #cloud-config loses its header on disable. We should trim before splitting.

added nextUserDataHeaderLine that strips leading whitespace and is reused across the various funcs.

goncalo-rodrigues and others added 11 commits September 4, 2026 10:25
Enabling phone-home previously required the user-data document root to be
a #cloud-config mapping. A #cloud-config-archive (a YAML sequence) was
rejected with "userData ... must be valid cloud-init YAML to enable phone
home", even though cloud-init merges each archive part independently.

Deliver phone-home as its own archive part instead:

- Classify user-data by its cloud-init header: a #cloud-config mapping
  (header-less is still accepted and the header added on output) or a
  #cloud-config-archive sequence, including an empty archive. A list
  without the archive header, or a map carrying a different header (e.g. a
  #!/bin/bash script that happens to parse as a map), is rejected rather
  than silently mangled.
- Insert appends a dedicated text/cloud-config entry whose content is
  built by the existing #cloud-config insertion path, so both formats
  share one source of truth for the phone-home block.
- Remove strips phone-home from each cloud-config entry, dropping entries
  left empty and leaving unrelated parts untouched.
- The archive header comment is preserved - including when the last entry
  is removed, where it moves onto the sequence node - and re-enabling
  stays idempotent, matching the #cloud-config behaviour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Address review feedback on the archive support:

- Skip archive entries that cannot carry phone-home (e.g. a
  text/cloud-config part whose content is actually a #!/bin/bash script
  that parses as a map) instead of failing the whole removal, by
  validating each entry root with PhoneHomeSupportsUserDataRoot before
  processing it.
- Have the mapping and user-data removal helpers report whether they
  removed anything and propagate it through RemovePhoneHomeFromUserData,
  so an archive entry is re-rendered when phone-home was nested under
  autoinstall.user-data (whose removal leaves the entry's top-level keys
  unchanged).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Address review feedback on empty/emptied archives:

- Only blank stored user-data for an empty #cloud-config mapping. An
  emptied #cloud-config-archive is now re-serialized rather than blanked,
  so it keeps its header and empty sequence.
- When phone-home removal drops the header-carrying first entry, restore
  the #cloud-config-archive header onto the new first entry even if that
  entry already has its own comment (prepending it), so the header is not
  lost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Co-authored-by: coderabbitai[bot] <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonçalo Rodrigues <goncalo.alfredo.rodrigues@gmail.com>
Enabling phone-home rejected valid templated user-data as invalid
cloud-init YAML. A jinja template declares its format on the line below
the marker:

	## template: jinja
	#cloud-config

but the check only read the first line, saw "## template: jinja", and
refused a document whose YAML root is a perfectly good mapping. Disabling
had the mirror-image bug: yaml keeps the header comment on the document's
first key, so removing a phone-home block that happened to be that key
took the header with it, turning "#cloud-config\nphone_home: ..." into
header-less user-data - and it would have dropped a template marker the
same way.

Both come from the header being carried inside the YAML document. It is
text above the document, the way a cloud-config is written from scratch,
so it is now treated as such: split off the raw user-data before parsing
and prepended again on rendering. No edit to the document can lose it, and
a two-line jinja header is just a header two lines long.

Owning the header means owning the parse/render boundary, so it moves into
util behind two functions:

- EnablePhoneHomeInUserData and DisablePhoneHomeInUserData take and return
  user-data, and report user-data the block cannot live in (a script, a
  template of one, anything not YAML) as ErrUnsupportedUserData: callers
  enabling reject the request, callers disabling leave it alone. Absent
  user-data is handled here too - enabling builds the document, disabling
  has nothing to store - and disabling hands back the input untouched when
  there is no block of ours to remove.
- The five call sites in instance.go and operatingsystem.go lose the
  unmarshal / check-the-root / mutate / marshal / blank-if-empty block they
  each repeated, their empty-user-data special cases, and their yaml
  import. SitePhoneHomeCloudInit goes with them: the document for an
  enable with no user-data is now rendered by the same path as every other
  insert, so its odd indentation is gone.
- An archive part is user-data in its own right, so the #cloud-config-archive
  path is recursion into the same functions rather than its own header
  handling, and the phone-home part's content is rendered by the
  #cloud-config path.

The review fix in 8f92cb2 is carried over rather than kept: it tightened
a strings.HasPrefix check on the header comment that this commit deletes
along with the rest of the in-document header handling. Nothing compares
header prefixes any more - the format is matched exactly, once, in
parseUserData.

Removal can no longer fail, so its error paths go away. Existing tests keep
their cases and assertions and only change how they call in; the additions
cover the jinja header, a header carried on the phone-home key, and absent
user-data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Checked against the documentation while confirming whether a comment may
precede the format header. It may not - "a user-data header is required
for cloud-init to recognize the format" (doc/rtd/reference/
config-format-headers.rst), and detection reads the start of the payload:

	payload_lc = util.decode_binary(payload).lower()
	payload_lc = payload_lc.lstrip()
	for text in INCLUSION_SRCH:
	    if payload_lc.startswith(text):

(cloudinit/handlers/__init__.py). A comment above the header matches no
marker, so cloud-init falls back to text/x-not-multipart and ignores the
user-data entirely. Rejecting it is right, and a test now says so.

That same detection is looser than ours in two ways, each able to reject
user-data cloud-init accepts:

- it lowercases the payload, so "#Cloud-Config" is a cloud-config;
- it matches on the start of the payload, so "#cloud-config (managed by
  nico)" is one too.

So headerFormat now matches a marker the way cloud-init matches it, trying
the longer marker first because #cloud-config prefixes
#cloud-config-archive - the reason cloud-init keeps INCLUSION_SRCH sorted
longest first. It returns the marker itself, so callers still compare
against the constants. Only classification changes: the header is
re-emitted as authored, notes, capitals and all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Three cases where the phone-home helpers disagreed with what cloud-init
actually runs:

- A jinja-wrapped #cloud-config-archive was accepted, but cloud-init's
  jinja handler only has cloud-config, shell-script and boothook
  sub-handlers, so it ignores the payload and phone-home never runs.
  It is now unsupported user-data, so enabling rejects it instead of
  silently writing a block that never fires.
- A scalar archive entry was skipped, but cloud-init reads one as the
  content of an entry with no type and infers the type from its header.
  phone-home in a scalar entry is therefore live: it is now stripped on
  disable and replaced rather than duplicated on enable.
- An entry with a structured type (type: {invalid: value}) was read as
  one with no type at all, since a mapping node has an empty Value, so
  disabling could rewrite its content and drop the entry entirely.
  Non-scalar types are left alone now.

Regression tests cover all three; each fails without the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Archive entries, and the values inside them, can be yaml aliases. Removing
the anchored phone-home entry an alias pointed at dropped the anchor and
left the alias behind: the rendered user-data was
`#cloud-config-archive\n- *phone`, which yaml cannot read back at all, so
cloud-init would skip the whole document.

Aliases are now read through where the document is read: mappingValue
resolves the mapping, its keys and its values, so every lookup sees what
cloud-init sees. That covers the reads a per-site fix missed - an aliased
phone_home block, an aliased url, an aliased autoinstall - and a key
written twice is read the way the loader reads it, last one wins. Merge
keys are the half of loading this does not resolve, so a part that merges
another is left alone rather than read as cloud-config it may not be.

An alias whose anchor a removal took away is replaced by the value it
pointed at, anchor included, so only the first alias to a value is copied
and the ones after it stay aliases. Copying every one of them expanded
nested aliases exponentially - 554 bytes in, 7.3MB out - and a
self-referencing anchor recursed until the stack ran out.

An archive entry is rewritten where it stands, so a part aliasing or
merging it reads the rewrite; an entry dropped for holding nothing but
phone-home is emptied on the way out for the same reason. Only the node
holding the content is replaced, because a part of another type can alias
that node and keeps what it was authored with.

renderUserData no longer edits the document it renders, and parses back
what it rendered: failing that fails the request rather than reporting
phone-home disabled over user-data that still carries it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
Aliases were read through where the document is read; merge keys were not,
so a phone_home reached only through `<<` was invisible. cloud-init resolves
a merge at load, which makes such a block as live as one written in place -
disabling reported success over user-data still calling home, and an entry
whose type arrived through a merge was read as the cloud-config it may not
be.

mappingValue now reads the keys a mapping merges in after its own: every
merge key it holds, the first winning, the way yaml applies them. Removal
follows a merge too, taking a merged block out of the mapping it is written
in, which is the only place it can come out of - a merged key cannot be
overridden away. An entry that merges the content it strips takes a content
key of its own, which wins over the one it merges, so the rewrite lands
where the read came from.

Enabling on an archive adds phone-home under the autoinstall of the entry
that installs a target system, since that is the config the installed system
runs and where removal already looked for it. An entry of its own reported
from the installer, so the callback never came from the target. An entry
phone-home cannot be inserted into is passed over rather than failing the
request over somebody else's entry, templates included: yaml reads `{{ x }}`
as a mapping and would write it back as one.

User-data holding more than one yaml document is unsupported rather than
edited: cloud-init reads one document out of it, and rendering back the one
we read dropped the rest - or blanked the field outright when the block was
all the first document held.

The error a caller shows names the operation that failed, so a failure to
take phone-home out does not send whoever reads it looking at the path that
puts it in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
An archive entry declaring an autoinstall whose autoinstall, or whose
user-data, is not a mapping was passed over, and phone-home was appended as
a root-level entry instead. For an autoinstall flow that block runs in the
installer, not on the installed system, so the callback came from the wrong
boot with nothing said about it. The non-archive path rejects the same
document.

installsATargetSystem now only asks whether the entry declares an
autoinstall at all; its shape is insertPhoneHome's to check, so both paths
report the same error for the same document.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
cloud-init lstrips user-data before matching the header, so a marker written
behind a blank line or a space indent still declares the format. We required it
on byte zero: an archive written that way was not a document we could edit, so
enabling failed the request and disabling reported success over user-data still
calling home. nextUserDataHeaderLine now looks for a header line the way
cloud-init looks for one, skipping the whitespace before it and returning it
with the line, so the line and the rest hold every byte and user-data is stored
as its author wrote it. Only the whitespace yaml reads past is skipped: a
document written behind a tab is not one yaml can read, so it stays reported
rather than stored to do nothing at boot. Both the split and the format read go
through the helper, which gives the jinja marker's second line the same rule as
the first.

A template is not a document to render back either: yaml reads `{{ x }}` as a
mapping and writes it back as one, so editing one rewrote `hostname: {{ x }}`
into `hostname: {? {x: ''} : ''}`. Only a jinja archive was refused before, and
only for cloud-init's own reason. parseUserData now reports every template,
which is enable rejecting it and disable leaving it alone - the contract the
sentinel already carries for a script. Inside an archive the same read covers
both passes: an entry insertion passes over is one the strip pass keeps as
authored, where before it refused to insert into a template and then rewrote
one whose block it stripped, in the same enable.

The cost is phone-home over templated user-data: enabling is refused where it
used to insert, and a block an author wrote inside a template survives a
disable. Enabling over an archive holding one leaves that block in place and
appends its own entry last, which is the one cloud-init's merge keeps, since it
folds the parts into one config with later keys replacing earlier ones.
Rewriting somebody's boot config is the worse of the two.

The docs name both formats phone-home can be edited into, what enabling
rejects, which block disabling removes - by url for user-data a request
supplies, by key for a stored blob we wrote - and where the block lands in
each, the installer-side fallback included.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
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The header is read against cloud-init's own marker list, longest first the way
it searches, so a format it dispatches elsewhere is told apart from a header
declaring none - which is the distinction an archive entry's content turns on.
A #cloud-config-jsonp patch was going to the yaml merger as though the marker
read #cloud-config, with phone-home inserted into the patch. User-data
declaring no format is read as #cloud-config as before, and enabling writes
that marker above it.

An entry declares its own format. cloud-init dispatches it on the type the
entry carries without reading the content at all, so that wins over a first
line saying otherwise, which to cloud-init is a comment: an entry typed
text/cloud-config whose content opened with a shebang, a boothook marker or a
note was handed back untouched while its block kept calling home. An entry
declaring no type is read from its content, and one declaring nothing there is
text/cloud-config - the type cloud-init defaults an entry to, and the form its
own documentation writes. A template is the exception we keep: rendering one
back rewrites the expressions in it, and cloud-init does not render it under
this type either, so such an entry is left as authored and its block reported
rather than removed. A null type reads as an entry declaring none, which is
what an empty one loads as.

An emptied mapping renders as `{}` and an emptied archive as `[]`, the only way
yaml writes either, and the archive path rewrites an entry through its text, so
it read that back flow-styled: an entry whose autoinstall user-data held
nothing but phone-home was stored as
`user-data: {phone_home: {post: all, url: '...'}}`. What we write into goes back
to written-out style when it holds nothing, since `{}` is all an author could
have written there; a mapping of theirs with anything in it is left in flow.

The error enabling returns names the document rather than the request, since
what it rejects is as often the stored blob a request inherits, and says which
formats carry phone-home. The OS update path reports a removal that failed as a
removal, the way the instance paths already do. marshalUserData is unexported
now that renderUserData is its only caller.

The docs name both formats phone-home can be edited into, what enabling
rejects, which block disabling removes - by url for user-data a request
supplies, by key for a stored blob we wrote - and where the block lands in
each, the installer-side fallback and an entry's own format included.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: goncalo-rodrigues <goncalo.rodrigues@ori.co>
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