DecodeMultipartVmware will try to decode the user-data from VMWARE provider as it returns a multipart/mixed data instead of the simple cloud-config.

IfArch checks if the current architecture matches the one specified in the stage Only runs if the regex matches the current architecture.

IfServiceManager checks if the current service manager matches the one specified in the stage Only runs if the service manager matches the specified service manager.

OnlyIfOS checks if the OS matches the if statement and runs it if so.

OnlyIfOSVersion checks if the OS VERSION matches the if statement and runs it if so.

Packages runs the package manager to try to install/remove/upgrade/refresh packages It will try to identify the package manager based on the distro If it can't identify the package manager, it will return an error Order is Refresh -> Upgrade -> Install -> Remove.

We only manage sizes in sectors unit for the Partition struct and sgdisk wrapper.