[openstack-dev] [nova] EC2 Compatibility metadata on config drive, fixed IP info

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Wed Oct 23 18:08:49 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:35 PM,
<openstack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org>wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:21:00 +1100
> From: Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>         <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] EC2 Compatibility metadata on
>         config drive, fixed IP info
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> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Mate Lakat <mate.lakat at citrix.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are looking at config drive use cases, and saw this in the official
> > docs:
> >
> >   Do not rely on the presence of the EC2 metadata present in the config
> >   drive (i.e., files under the ec2 directory), as this content may be
> >   removed in a future release.
>
> Huh. That's news to me. I wonder why we'd bother implementing it if we
> don't want people to use it?
>


I was the one who made that doc edit, but I added that particular text on
suggestion of Scott Moser. The review in question was:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/16504/


Lorin

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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com
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