<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks Scott!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I have removed cloud-init from my instance and enabled config-drive in the nova.conf file.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Anything else I should
take notice of?</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Scott Moser <smoser@ubuntu.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Dean Troyer <dtroyer@gmail.com>; "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:58 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Jake G. wrote:<br><br>> I got the user correct
now I am wondering why this is nessasary for my environment.<br>> I am not using Amazon EC2 services so why would I need to get metadata from there API?<br>><br>> Can someone explain?<br><br>Cloud-init uses the "datasource" of the EC2 Metadata service, that<br>Openstack provides a workalike for.<br>That metadata service has things like "instance-id" and "hostname" that<br>are useful. cloud-init uses instance-id for "run-once-per-instance"<br>functionality.<br><br>cloud-init also gets user-data from the datasource, and that is very<br>useful for initializing images with information provided at launch time by<br>the user.<br><br>If you enable config-drive in openstack, then cloud-init will find the<br>same data above from the config-drive, and wont bother looking for the ec2<br>metadata service.<br><br>Scott<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>