Summary

Attempted to SSH into the instance and check basic network connectivity.

Verified SSH connectivity by testing port 22 using netcat or telnet.

Identified the compute node hosting the instance.

Inspected metadata service and found it failed to run on the compute node.

Ran neutron-ovn-db-sync-util to diagnose and repair the missing metadata port issue.

Confirmed metadata resources are available after repair.

Rebooted the instance to fetch metadata on boot.

SSH into the instance to verify functionality.