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Some external vendordata services want to provide metadata based on the role of the user who started the instance. It would be confusing if the metadata returned changed later if the role of the user changed, so we cache the boot time roles and then pass those to the external vendordata service. Change-Id: Ieb84c945f4f9a21c2b7b892f9b1ead84dca441e9
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