cloud-init warning: "Kubernetes is trying to restart cloud-init" #1957
Description
Environment
- Make target:
make build-ami-ubuntu-2404 - Run using container image? (Y/N): N
- Vars file:
{
"kubernetes_deb_version": "1.35.2-1.1",
"kubernetes_semver": "v1.35.2",
"kubernetes_series": "v1.35",
"ami_regions": "eu-north-1",
"aws_region": "eu-north-1",
"ami_groups": "",
"snapshot_groups": "",
"build_name": "ubuntu-24.04-andreas-capi-testing"
}
What steps did you take and what happened?
While testing the image built for Ubuntu 24.04 with this change, I noticed this deprecation warning:
[...]
[2026-03-17 21:40:40] 2026-03-17 21:40:40,590 - user_data.py[WARNING]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/secret-userdata.txt' for url: file:///etc/secret-userdata.txt
[2026-03-17 21:40:40] 2026-03-17 21:40:40,597 - DataSourceEc2Kubernetes.py[WARNING]: Kubernetes is trying to restart cloud-init. This is no longer necessary and is temporarily circumvented by cloud-init. This will be a hard error in the future.
[2026-03-17 21:40:40] +++ [2026-03-17T21:40:40+00:00] aws.cluster.x-k8s.io encrypted cloud-init script /var/lib/cloud/instances/i-07f48c11381a26593/boothooks/part-001 started
[...]
This was already mentioned as a problem here. Let's check if this is a regression and how to avoid it.
What did you expect to happen?
No cloud-init warnings
Anything else you would like to add?
/kind bug