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35 changes: 19 additions & 16 deletions internal/providers/openstack/openstack.go
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Expand Up @@ -13,14 +13,14 @@
// limitations under the License.

// The OpenStack provider fetches configurations from the userdata available in
// both the config-drive as well as the network metadata service. Whichever
// both the config-drive and the network metadata service. Whichever
// responds first is the config that is used.
// NOTE: This provider is still EXPERIMENTAL.

package openstack

import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net"
"net/url"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ func fetchConfig(f *resource.Fetcher) (types.Config, report.Report, error) {
go func() {
raw, err := fn()
if err != nil {
switch err {
case context.Canceled:
switch {
case errors.Is(err, context.Canceled):
default:
f.Logger.Err("failed to fetch config from %s: %v", name, err)
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ Loop:

func fileExists(path string) bool {
_, err := os.Stat(path)
return (err == nil)
return err == nil
}

func fetchConfigFromDevice(logger *log.Logger, ctx context.Context, path string) ([]byte, error) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ func fetchConfigFromDevice(logger *log.Logger, ctx context.Context, path string)
}

func fetchConfigFromMetadataService(f *resource.Fetcher) ([]byte, error) {
retryCodes := []int{
404, // not found

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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Preserve the empty-config response.

When an instance has no user data, Nova returns 404 for user_data. (raw.githubusercontent.com) This retry policy prevents that response from becoming resource.ErrNotFound. With the default unlimited HTTP timeout and no config drive, Ignition waits indefinitely instead of booting with an empty config. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Distinguish a ready metadata service with no user data from a service that is not ready, then retain retries for the latter. As per path instructions, “Platform providers must retry config fetch, allow empty config.”

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Review comment at @internal/providers/openstack/openstack.go at line 186:
Update the OpenStack config-fetch retry policy so a 404 for user_data from a
ready metadata service is treated as an empty configuration, while responses
indicating the service is not ready continue to be retried.

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I spawned an instance using this patch without user-data on Brightbox, an OpenStack based cloud-provider - the user-data has returned a 200 with an empty config. That has been processed by Ignition as "empty config".

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- Nova missing-user-data handling ---'
curl -fsSL --max-time 30 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openstack/nova/master/nova/api/metadata/base.py | rg -n -C 7 'user_data|def get_data|KeyError'
printf '%s\n' '--- Ignition HTTP retry handling at reviewed revision ---'
curl -fsSL --max-time 30 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/ignition/5cfd399facc9e6c1f79e330b11b43b33ad5d1c93/internal/resource/http.go | rg -n -C 7 'RetryCodes|ErrNotFound|StatusNotFound|timeout|Timeout'

Length of output: 11487

@tormath1 Thanks for testing. Your result confirms that Brightbox handles the HTTP 200 empty-response case correctly with this patch. My original wording was too broad: no user data does not always produce HTTP 404.

The remaining concern is specific to deployments that return HTTP 404 for absent user data. Nova’s source distinguishes absent user data from empty user data. Ignition’s HTTP code confirms that adding 404 to RetryCodes retries that response indefinitely with the default timeout.

The Brightbox result does not exercise that case. Please also check a Nova instance with absent user data and no config drive, and confirm whether user_data returns 404 and whether boot completes.

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Learnt from: prestist
Repo: coreos/ignition PR: 2296
File: internal/providers/outscale/outscale.go:50-58
Timestamp: 2026-09-18T23:57:31.840Z
Learning: In Ignition Go platform providers that fetch user-data, including `internal/providers/hetzner/hetzner.go`, `internal/providers/vultr/vultr.go`, and `internal/providers/exoscale/exoscale.go`, providers pass empty or nil user-data to `util.ParseConfig`. `util.ParseConfig` returns `errors.ErrEmpty` for zero-length data, and `internal/exec/engine.go` handles that error as an empty provider configuration and continues.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: coreos/ignition PR: 0
File: docs/development.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T08:25:51.512Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Ignition
## Resources
- [Development Guide](docs/development.md)

Source excerpt:
# Development

## Development notes

### Platforms

Platform providers should continue retrying config fetch until it's clear whether the user has provided an Ignition config.  If Ignition eventually timed out when fetching a config, then a slow network device or block device (on a very large machine or a heavily-loaded VM host) could cause Ignition to prematurely fail, or to continue booting without applying the specified config.

Learnt from: CR
Repo: coreos/ignition PR: 0
File: docs/development.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-10-20T08:25:51.512Z
Learning: Applicability reference:
AGENTS.md: # Ignition
## Resources
- [Development Guide](docs/development.md)

Source excerpt:
# Development

## Development notes

### Platforms

Platform providers must allow the user not to provide a config, e.g. to boot an exploratory OS instance and use Afterburn to inject SSH keys.

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}
ipv6Interfaces, err := findInterfacesWithIPv6()
if err != nil {
f.Logger.Info("No active IPv6 network interface found: %v", err)
// Fall back to IPv4 only
return fetchConfigFromMetadataServiceIPv4Only(f)
return fetchConfigFromMetadataServiceIPv4Only(f, retryCodes)
}

urls := []url.URL{userdataURLs[resource.IPv4]}
Expand All @@ -198,11 +201,11 @@ func fetchConfigFromMetadataService(f *resource.Fetcher) ([]byte, error) {
}

// Use parallel fetching for all interfaces
data, err := fetchConfigParallel(f, urls)
data, err := fetchConfigParallel(f, urls, retryCodes)
if err != nil {
// the metadata server exists but doesn't contain any actual metadata,
// assume that there is no config specified
if err == resource.ErrNotFound {
if errors.Is(err, resource.ErrNotFound) {
return nil, nil
}
return nil, err
Expand All @@ -211,12 +214,12 @@ func fetchConfigFromMetadataService(f *resource.Fetcher) ([]byte, error) {
return data, nil
}

func fetchConfigFromMetadataServiceIPv4Only(f *resource.Fetcher) ([]byte, error) {
func fetchConfigFromMetadataServiceIPv4Only(f *resource.Fetcher, retryCodes []int) ([]byte, error) {
ipv4Url := userdataURLs[resource.IPv4]

data, err := f.FetchToBuffer(ipv4Url, resource.FetchOptions{})
data, err := f.FetchToBuffer(ipv4Url, resource.FetchOptions{RetryCodes: retryCodes})
if err != nil {
if err == resource.ErrNotFound {
if errors.Is(err, resource.ErrNotFound) {
return nil, nil
}
return nil, err
Expand All @@ -225,7 +228,7 @@ func fetchConfigFromMetadataServiceIPv4Only(f *resource.Fetcher) ([]byte, error)
return data, nil
}

func fetchConfigParallel(f *resource.Fetcher, urls []url.URL) ([]byte, error) {
func fetchConfigParallel(f *resource.Fetcher, urls []url.URL, retryCodes []int) ([]byte, error) {
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
defer cancel()

Expand All @@ -237,18 +240,18 @@ func fetchConfigParallel(f *resource.Fetcher, urls []url.URL) ([]byte, error) {
cfg := make(map[url.URL][]byte)

success := make(chan url.URL, 1)
errors := make(chan error, len(urls))
errs := make(chan error, len(urls))

// Use waitgroup to wait for all goroutines to complete
var wg sync.WaitGroup

fetch := func(_ context.Context, u url.URL) {
defer wg.Done()
d, e := f.FetchToBuffer(u, resource.FetchOptions{})
d, e := f.FetchToBuffer(u, resource.FetchOptions{RetryCodes: retryCodes})
if e != nil {
f.Logger.Err("fetching configuration for %s: %v", u.String(), e)
err = e
errors <- e
errs <- e
} else {
cfg[u] = d
select {
Expand All @@ -275,7 +278,7 @@ func fetchConfigParallel(f *resource.Fetcher, urls []url.URL) ([]byte, error) {
case u := <-success:
f.Logger.Debug("got configuration from: %s", u.String())
return cfg[u], nil
case <-errors:
case <-errs:
nbErrors++
if nbErrors == len(urls) {
f.Logger.Debug("all routines have failed to fetch configuration, returning last known error: %v", err)
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