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Summary

Azure's provider previously read custom user-data from CustomData.bin. This PR switches
to reading custom data directly from ovf-env.xml, dropping reliance on CustomData.bin.

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  • internal/providers/azure/azure.go: read custom data from ovf-env.xml instead of
    CustomData.bin
  • internal/providers/azure/azure_test.go: add tests covering the new custom data parsing
  • docs/ignition-flow.md, docs/release-notes.md: documentation updates

Related issue thread: coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#2191

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The Azure provider now reads base64-encoded custom data from ovf-env.xml on the config drive. It adds XML parsing and decoding errors, updates empty-userdata handling, adds test coverage, and documents the change.

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Azure custom data loading

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OVF custom data loading
internal/providers/azure/azure.go, internal/providers/azure/azure_test.go, docs/ignition-flow.md, docs/release-notes.md
The provider parses ovf-env.xml, removes whitespace from CustomData, decodes the base64 payload, and reports parsing or decoding errors. Tests cover valid, empty, multiline, malformed, and invalid-base64 inputs. Documentation describes the updated Azure fallback flow and release-note fix.

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Azure custom data loading now uses OVF environment data; no unresolved merge-blocking risk is identified in the supplied change context.

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Thanks for working on this!

Not super familiar with Azure, so I have just left a small question.

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const (
configPath = "/CustomData.bin"

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Why are we dropping CustomData.bin for ovf-env.xml, rather than checking for both ?

Would there ever be cases where the old /CustomData.bin is populated and the correct place from which to read?

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Good question!

To make a long answer short, there's really never a scenario where /CustomData.bin is populated and the ovf isn't.
Azure almost exclusively uses the OVF at this point, and all of the custom data that's exposed to the guest is already available in ovf-env.xml.

That's also backed up by the fact that /CustomData.bin was broken for CVMs for a bit and nobody noticed until it came up in the Fedora thread!

That said, I'm not strongly opposed to keeping /CustomData.bin as a fallback if it makes people more comfortable. I just haven't found an Azure scenario where it would buy us anything, since the same data should already be available in ovf-env.xml.

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