RHEL 7.2 cloud image's subscription manager plugin causes delayed start

Issue

• The RHEL 7.2 cloud / kvm guest image has a rh_subscription plugin that attempts to auto-register. If there are firewall rules to block the request then there will be a 2 minute timeout for cloud-init to finish.

[   25.964429] cloud-init[809]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 running 'init' at Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:46:10 +0000. Up 25.91 seconds.
[   26.073905] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++Net device info+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.2 (Maipo)
Kernel 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64

host-10-10-10-150
[   26.214155] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +--------+------+--------------+---------------+-------------------+ login: 
[   26.287118] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: | Device |  Up  |   Address    |      Mask     |     Hw-Address    |
[   26.347018] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +--------+------+--------------+---------------+-------------------+
[   26.437263] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: |  lo:   | True |  127.0.0.1   |   255.0.0.0   |         .         |
[   26.511486] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: | eth0:  | True | 10.10.10.14 | 255.255.255.0 | x:x:x:x:x |
[   26.590257] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +--------+------+--------------+---------------+-------------------+
[   26.665116] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Route info+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
[   26.732902] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+------------+---------------+-----------+-------+
[   26.799754] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: | Route | Destination |  Gateway   |    Genmask    | Interface | Flags |
[   26.939306] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+------------+---------------+-----------+-------+
[   27.014039] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: |   0   |   0.0.0.0   | 10.10.10.1 |    0.0.0.0    |    eth0   |   UG  |
[   27.085249] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: |   1   |  10.10.10.0 |  0.0.0.0   | 255.255.255.0 |    eth0   |   U   |
[   27.139046] cloud-init[809]: ci-info: +-------+-------------+------------+---------------+-----------+-------+
[  164.897506] cloud-init[809]: 2016-01-19 14:48:29,266 - cc_rh_subscription.py[WARNING]: Unable to register system due to incomplete information.
[  164.969816] cloud-init[809]: 2016-01-19 14:48:29,269 - cc_rh_subscription.py[WARNING]: Use either activationkey and org *or* userid and password
[  165.041524] cloud-init[809]: 2016-01-19 14:48:29,269 - cc_rh_subscription.py[WARNING]: Registration failed or did not run completely
[  165.095383] cloud-init[809]: 2016-01-19 14:48:29,270 - cc_rh_subscription.py[WARNING]: rh_subscription plugin did not complete successfully
[  167.129391] cloud-init[9074]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 running 'modules:config' at Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:48:31 +0000. Up 167.07 seconds.
[  167.824483] cloud-init[9115]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 running 'modules:final' at Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:48:32 +0000. Up 167.70 seconds.
ci-info: ++++++++++++++++Authorized keys from /home/cloud-user/.ssh/authorized_keys for user cloud-user+++++++++++++++++
ci-info: +---------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+---------------------------------------+
ci-info: | Keytype |                Fingerprint (md5)                | Options |                Comment                |
ci-info: +---------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+---------------------------------------+
ci-info: | ssh-rsa | ..... |    -    | user@domain.com |
ci-info: +---------+-------------------------------------------------+---------+---------------------------------------+
ec2: 
ec2: #############################################################
ec2: -----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----
....
...
ec2: -----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS-----
ec2: #############################################################
-----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY KEYS-----
........
-----END SSH HOST KEY KEYS-----
[  168.756454] cloud-init[9115]: 2016-01-19 14:48:33,132 - templater.py[WARNING]: Cheetah not available as the default renderer for unknown template, reverting to the basic renderer.
[  168.833464] cloud-init[9115]: Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 finished at Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:48:33 +0000. Datasource DataSourceOpenStack [net,ver=2].  Up 168.75 seconds