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Don't claim that CLI user data requires manual base64 encoding

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python-novaclient automatically encodes user data as base64 before
passing to the API, so don't claim that the user needs to do it,
as discussed on IRC:

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-nova/%23openstack-nova.2019-08-05.log.html#t2019-08-05T17:52:41

(Even they did need to, it would have been more helpful to tell
them *how*.)

Change-Id: I20c272e0a5b277652e1cef90d1f9fbb714e173d7
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Adam Spiers 2019-08-05 18:58:50 +01:00
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@ -427,8 +427,9 @@ You can place user data in a local file and pass it through the ``--user-data
.. note::
The provided user data must be base64 encoded and is restricted to 65535
bytes.
The provided user data should not be base64-encoded, as it will be
automatically encoded in order to pass valid input to the REST
API, which has a limit of 65535 bytes after encoding.
Once booted, you can access this data from the instance using either the
metadata service or the config drive. To access it via the metadata service,