[Bug 1691428] Re: LXDAPIException: json: cannot unmarshal bool into Go value of type string when using config-drive

[James Page]

Deployed and verified ability to launch config-drive enabled instances
under zesty proposed - package version '15.0.1-0ubuntu1.1':

# apt-cache policy nova-compute-lxd
nova-compute-lxd:
  Installed: 15.0.1-0ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 15.0.2.dev1.201705231139.zesty-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     15.0.2.dev1.201705231139.zesty-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/openstack-ubuntu-testing/ocata/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
 *** 15.0.1-0ubuntu1.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     15.0.1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages


** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-newton-done verification-ocata-needed
** Tags added: verfication-done

** Tags removed: verfication-done
** Tags added: verification-done

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Title:
  LXDAPIException: json: cannot unmarshal bool into Go value of type
  string when using config-drive

Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive newton series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive ocata series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive pike series:
  Fix Released
Status in nova-lxd:
  Fix Released
Status in nova-lxd package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nova-lxd source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Committed
Status in nova-lxd source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed
Status in nova-lxd source package in Artful:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Not possible to use the config-drive support (as currently in yakkety-proposed, zesty and artful)

  [Test Case]
  Deploy Nova-LXD based OpenStack Cloud
  openstack server create --wait --image xenial --flavor m1.small --key-name testkey --nic net-id=XXXX --min 1 --max 1 --config-drive True xenial-config-drive
  instance will go into ERROR state and fail to boot.

  [Regression Potential]
  Minimal; this feature has never worked correctly, the fix resolves and issue with passing the readonly flag for the config-drive device as a boolean rather than a string (as required by the LXD API).

  [Original Bug Report]
  When booting instances using the --config-drive flag, the instance fail to boot with the following error:

    LXDAPIException: json: cannot unmarshal bool into Go value of type
  string

  nova-lxd is passing the 'readonly' flag as a boolean, not as a string,
  and the LXD API fails to unmarshall it as a result.

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