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

Artom Lifshitz alifshit at redhat.com
Mon Feb 20 13:23:09 UTC 2017


Config drive over read-only NFS anyone?


A shared filesystem so that both Nova and the guest can do IO on it at the
same time is indeed the proper way to solve this. But I'm afraid of the
ramifications in terms of live migrations and all other operations we can
do on VMs...


Michael

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- 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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