User Data

Run the below from PSRemoting session

1

Enter PSRemoting

$password = ConvertTo-SecureString 'StudxPassword@123' -AsPlainText -Force
$creds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('studentx', $password)
$jumpvm = New-PSSession -ComputerName 51.116.180.87 -Credential $creds -SessionOption (New-PSSessionOption -ProxyAccessType NoProxyServer)
Enter-PSSession -Session $jumpvm

2

Get the user data

$userData = Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{"Metadata"="true"} -Method GET -Uri "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/compute/userData?api-version=2021-01-01&format=text"

3

View data

[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([Convert]::FromBase64String($userData)