<div dir="ltr">Right, it depends on your perspective of who 'owns' the API. Is it cloud-init or EC2?<div><br></div><div>At this point I would argue that cloud-init is in control because it would be a large undertaking to switch all of the AMI's on Amazon to something else. However, I know Sean disagrees with me on this point so I'll let him reply here.<div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Fox, Kevin M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov" target="_blank">Kevin.Fox@pnnl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So if we define the well known address and cloud-init adopts it, then Amazon should be inclined to adopt it too. :)<br>
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Why always chase Amazon?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Kevin<br>
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From: Steve Gordon [<a href="mailto:sgordon@redhat.com">sgordon@redhat.com</a>]<br>
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<span class="im HOEnZb">Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] cloud-init IPv6 support<br>
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</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Kevin Benton" <<a href="mailto:blak111@gmail.com">blak111@gmail.com</a>><br>
><br>
> When we discussed this before on the neutron channel, I thought it was<br>
> because cloud-init doesn't support IPv6. We had wasted quite a bit of time<br>
> talking about adding support to our metadata service because I was under<br>
> the impression that cloud-init already did support IPv6.<br>
><br>
> IIRC, the argument against adding IPv6 support to cloud-init was that it<br>
> might be incompatible with how AWS chooses to implement IPv6 metadata, so<br>
> AWS would require a fork or other incompatible alternative to cloud-init in<br>
> all of their images.<br>
><br>
> Is that right?<br>
<br>
That's certainly my understanding of the status quo, I was enquiring primarily to check it was still accurate.<br>
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-Steve<br>
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> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Sean M. Collins <<a href="mailto:sean@coreitpro.com">sean@coreitpro.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > It's not a case of cloud-init supporting IPv6 - The Amazon EC2 metadata<br>
> > API defines transport level details about the API - and currently only<br>
> > defines a well known IPv4 link local address to connect to. No well known<br>
> > link local IPv6 address has been defined.<br>
> ><br>
> > I usually recommend config-drive for IPv6 enabled clouds due to this.<br>
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