Fix: GCE _get_data crashes if DHCP lease fails (#5997) #5998
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This commit addresses issue #5997 which reported crashes in init-local when cloud-init was examining GCELocal as a potential datasource. When all NICs failed at DHCP discovery cloud-init attempts to log the events by dereferencing a value that was never assigned.
This commit modifies the _get_data function of DataSourceGCE.py by adding an empty dictionary definition for the ret variable at the top level of the function and some debugging logs when a candidate NIC fails to obtain a DHCP lease. At the same time, the commit replaces the direct key access operator on ret with the safe lookup method get(). This commit also adds a unit test that mocks the observed situation
Fixes GH-5997