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Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Providing instance's guest OS with data 
(ssh keys, root password, hostname)
Date: Friday 19 December 2014, 14:17:34
From: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-
dev at lists.openstack.org>

Dmitry GuryanovOn Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:11:57PM +0300,  wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I understood correctly, there are 3 ways to provide guest OS with some 
data 
> (SSH keys, for example):
> 
> 1. mount guest root fs on host (with libguestfs) and copy data there.
> 2. config drive and cloud-init
> 3. nova metadata service and cloud-init
> 
> 
> All 3 methods do almost the same thing and can be enabled or disabled in 
nova 
> config file. So which one is preferred? How do people usually configure 
their 
> openstack clusters?
> 
> I'm asking, because we are going to extend nova/libvirt driver to support 
our 
> virtualization solution (parallels driver in libvirt) and it seems it will 
not 
> work as is and requires some development. Which method is first-priority and 
> used by most people?

I'd probably prioritize in this order:

  1. config drive and cloud-init
  2. nova metadata service and cloud-init
  3. mount guest root fs on host (with libguestfs) and copy data there.

but there's not much to choose between 1 & 2.

NB, option 3 isn't actually hardcoded to use libguestfs - it falls back
to using loop devices / local mounts, albeit less secure, so not really
recommended. At some point option 3 may be removed from Nova entirely
since the first two options are preferred & more reliable in general.

Regards,
Daniel
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