cloud-init

Azure IMDS documentation wrong about IP address

Bug #1849508 reported by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on 2019-10-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Fix Released	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Azure data source documentation (topics/datasources/azure.rst.txt) has the following:

Azure provides the `instance metadata service (IMDS)
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/instance-metadata-service>`_
which is a REST service on ``196.254.196.254`` providing additional
configuration information to the instance.

However, the Azure documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/instance-metadata-service lists the IP address as 169.254.169.254, which makes more sense given how 169.254.169.254 is of the link-local reserved addresses and 196.254.196.254 is the University of the Free State in South Africa.

Related branches

~powersj/cloud-init:fix/azure_ip_doc

Merged into cloud-init:master

Dan Watkins: Approve on 2019-10-23

Server Team CI bot: Approve (continuous-integration) on 2019-10-23

Revision history for this message

Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote on 2019-10-23:

Thanks for taking the time to file the bug! I have a branch up that will fix the incorrect address.

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → High

Revision history for this message

Server Team CI bot (server-team-bot) wrote on 2019-10-23:

This bug is fixed with commit c47b46ed to cloud-init on branch master.
To view that commit see the following URL:
https://git.launchpad.net/cloud-init/commit/?id=c47b46ed

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

Revision history for this message

Chad Smith (chad.smith) wrote on 2019-12-19: Fixed in cloud-init version 19.2-67.

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 19.2-67. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.