<html><head></head><body>If you are using automation outside the instance (for example to create the instance) you can pass arbitrary metadata to the instance<br>
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Check nova meta and nova boot --meta <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On February 18, 2016 10:56:57 PM GMT+08:00, "Davíð Örn Jóhannsson" <davidoj@siminn.is> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">In order to access the API, I'd already have to know the Tenant name. <br /><br />This is for automation purposes where I need to be able to run scripts with unique parameters/name per each tenant.<br /><br /><hr /><br />Frá: Mohammed Naser <mnaser@vexxhost.com><br />Sent: 18. febrúar 2016 14:53<br />Til: Davíð Örn Jóhannsson<br />Afrit: openstack@lists.openstack.org<br />Efni: Re: [Openstack] Tenant name from within an instance<br /><br />Hey,<br /><br />I don’t think there is an alternative, you will need to make an API<br />call to get the name.<br /><br />The Nova API doesn’t know anything about tenant/project names, it only<br />works with IDs anyways.<br /><br />Mohammed<br /><br />On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Davíð Örn Jóhannsson <davidoj@siminn.is> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm currently looking for ways to be able to
retrieve information on what<br /> tenant a given openstack instance lives in from within that instance it<br /> self.<br /><br /><br /> This information is not available from<br /> <a href="http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data">http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data</a> and setting up a nova client to<br /> access the api is not the way I want to go.<br /><br /><br /><hr /><br /> Mailing list: <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack</a><br /> Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org<br /> Unsubscribe : <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack</a></blockquote><br /><br /><hr /><br />Mailing list: <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack</a><br />Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org<br
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