[openstack-dev] [nova] Create an instance with a custom uuid

Dean Troyer dtroyer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 20:17:09 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Roman Podoliaka <rpodolyaka at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Are there any known gotchas with support of this feature in REST APIs
> (in general)?
>

I'd be worried about relying on a user-defined attribute in that use case,
that's ripe for a DOS.  Since these are cloud-unique I wouldn't even need
to be in your project to block you from creating that clone instance if I
knew your UUID.

dt

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Dean Troyer
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