[Openstack] Anyone using instance metadata?

Joshua Harlow harlowja at yahoo-inc.com
Tue Jul 3 20:10:39 UTC 2012


+1 for getting over screams earlier rather than later

On 7/3/12 11:51 AM, "Scott Moser" <smoser at ubuntu.com> wrote:

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

> Metadata is supposed to be user "tags" that are associated with a guest
> that are available via the api. We discussed displaying these tags inside
> the guest as well.

Am I reading it wrong? It seems like it *is* available inside the guest.
At very least with config drive on i know it is.

> The main difference between user-data and metadata is that metadata is
> available to the api, whereas user-data is only available in the guest.

So to avoid confusion, if the intent was tags, I think we should disable
the 'meta.js' file injection, and get over the screams now.

half and half is just confusing.

Thoughts?

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