Droplet Meta Data not being passed

Using DO’s api v.2, attempting to create droplets and pass user_data however the user_data isnt being recognized.

Currently have two functions, first function creates a server on serverpilot, returning the $SERVERID & $SERVERAPIKEY and passing them into a callback function, which creates the DigitalOcean droplet passing in the user_data to run the server pilot installer, and thats where this fails.

Below is a snippet of my code ( Unfortunately cant provide full code base - but problem lies within user_data nonetheless ). Both server vars are accessible however running this only creates the server on server pilots side and the droplet, however the installer never runs.

$userData = "#!/bin/bash
    (test -e /usr/bin/wget || (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install wget)) && \
    sudo wget -nv -O serverpilot-installer.py https://download.serverpilot.io/serverpilot-installer.py && \
    sudo python serverpilot-installer.py \
    --server-id=$SERVERID
    --server-apikey=$SERVERAPIKEY
";

// create new droplet, connect to serverpilot, run installer
$data = array(
    'name'               => $appName,
    'region'             => 'nyc3',
    'size'               => '512mb',
    'image'              => 'ubuntu-14-04-x64',
    'user_data'          => $userData
);

Any ideas? Hope to hear from you guys soon!

–Constantine