[Openstack-operators] Anyone else use vendordata_driver in nova.conf?

Mathieu Gagné mgagne at calavera.ca
Tue May 3 22:25:50 UTC 2016


On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov> wrote:
>
> I think I see at least one use case for minimum 2 hooks...
>
> Cloud provider wants to inject some stuff.
>
> Cloud tenant wants their own hook called to inject stuff to point to the
> Config Management server in their own tenant.
>
> Maybe that's not vendor_data but tenant_data or something...
>

I think this could very well be addressed by cloud-init or any other
sane initialization service.
We just have to make sure instance identification and any other
reasonable information are made available to those tools so they can
be passed to their own Config Management server.
I see vendor_data as a non-intrusive way to pass additional data to
the instance without requiring the vendor/provider to inject an agent
or custom code within the customer's image.

--
Mathieu



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