[Openstack] [nova] a proposal to change metadata API data

Martin Packman martin.packman at canonical.com
Tue Jul 24 16:47:40 UTC 2012


On 23/07/2012, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is only due to the asinine EC2 API -- or rather the asinine
> implementation in EC2 that doesn't create an instance ID before the
> instance is launched.

So, I'm curious, how do you allocate a server id in advance using the
openstack api so you can pass it in rather than relying on an external
metadata service? I've not seen anything in the documentation
describing how to do that.

Martin




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