We're going to extend those to issue methods other than GET.
Also, "request" would've been too long, "req" looks nicer.
Conflicts: code formatting, missing trivial commit in,
provider-azure, missing 494819bbbf ("cloud-setup: move common
code for get_config() to base class and improve cancellation")
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