VMwareGuestInfoService is a metadata service which uses VMware's
rpctool to extract guest metadata and userdata configured for machines
running on VMware hypervisors.
The implementation is similar to:
https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
Supported features for the metadata service:
* instance id
* hostname
* admin username
* admin password
* public SSH keys
* userdata
Configuration options:
```ini
[vmwarequestinfo]
vmware_rpctool_path=%ProgramFiles%/VMware/VMware Tools/rpctool.exe
```
The VMware RPC tool used to query the instance metadata and userdata
needs to be present at the config option path.
Both json and yaml are supported as metadata formats.
The metadata / userdata can be encoded in base64, gzip or gzip+base64.
Example metadata in yaml format:
```yaml
instance-id: cloud-vm
local-hostname: cloud-vm
admin-username: cloud-username
admin-password: Passw0rd
public-keys-data: |
ssh-key 1
ssh-key 2
```
This metadata content needs to be sent as string in the guestinfo
dictionary, thus needs to be converted to base64 (it is recommended to
gzip it too).
To convert to gzip+base64 format:
```bash
cat metadata.yml | gzip.exe -9 | base64.exe -w0
```
Co-Authored-By: Rui Lopes <rgl@ruilopes.com>
Change-Id: I6a8430e87ee03d2e8fdd2685b05e60c5c0ffb5be
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