[openstack-dev] [nova] Device tagging: rebuild config drive upon instance reboot to refresh metadata on it

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Sat Feb 18 19:12:13 UTC 2017


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Artom Lifshitz" <alifshit at redhat.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Device tagging: rebuild config drive upon instance reboot to refresh metadata on
> it
> 
> In reply to Michael:
> 
> > We have had this discussion several times in the past for other reasons.
> > The
> > reality is that some people will never deploy the metadata API, so I feel
> > like we need a better solution than what we have now.
> 
> Aha, that's definitely a good reason to continue making the config
> drive a first-class citizen.

The other reason is that the metadata API as it stands isn't an option for folks trying to do IPV6-only IIRC.

-Steve



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