Also, can you check rsyslog for that node in /var/log/maas/rsyslog/<machjine-name>/ and see if there's something? if there's nothing there, probably cloud-init is failing somewhere.
Also, can you check rsyslog for that node in /var/log/ maas/rsyslog/ <machjine- name>/ and see if there's something? if there's nothing there, probably cloud-init is failing somewhere.