11 Dec
2024
11 Dec
'24
7:42 p.m.
On 2024-12-11 11:32:36 +0000 (+0000), Sean Mooney wrote: [...]
note that we also have a write once mechanic where by a first boot agent can generate an admin password withing the guest and post that back to the metadta api to save it to the nova db. [...]
Tangential, sorry, but could this sort of mechanism also be used to provide an out-of-band verification of SSH hostkeys generated on first boot for *nix type guests? We used to splat them to the primary terminal and then try to scrape them from the console log, but having a structured API response would be a lot cleaner (or did something similar already get added and I missed it?). -- Jeremy Stanley