[Openstack] Metadata and File Injection (code summit session?)

Justin Santa Barbara justin at fathomdb.com
Tue Apr 10 23:24:53 UTC 2012


>
> One advantage of a network metadata channel is it allows for communication
> with cloud provider services without having to put a key into the vm. In
> other words, the vm can be authenticated via its ipv6 address.
>

Did you have a use case in mind here?  It seems that Keystone could use the
IPV6 address to authenticate an instance without having to upload
credentials, which would indeed be useful (e.g. for auto-scaling), but I
don't see why that needs any special metadata support (?)
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