Thank you very much for those clarifications :D On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Did I miss something? > > > Unfortunately this is confusing because the term metadata is used for two > different things. > > the metadata visible to the instance is a replication of the aws metadata > server. it is constructed from the database (mostly the instances table) > > The metadata you were setting with your command are sets of keys and > values that are visible in the compute api: > > > http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/developer/openstack-compute-api-1.1/content/MetadataSection.html > > which is stored in the instance_metadata table > > > Last question, is there a way to update the metadata of a running > instance. I mean instead of updating the db record... For example > re-injecting a SSH key? > > > no, there is currently no way of doing this through the api. > > Vish > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120810/8b5dd057/attachment.html>