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

Matt Joyce matt.joyce at cloudscaling.com
Tue Jul 24 18:15:34 UTC 2012


> All I am saying is that Nova knows the instance's ID at the time that a
> config-drive can be created and installed into the instance. You can't
> do that with the "user data" EC2 API stuff, but you can with
> config-drive. Which is why I was recommending using config-drive.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>
For the record.  I don't like the idea of requiring instances to modify
their file systems just to get access to this sort of data.  I think it's a
great option, but as a requirement I think it totally sucks.

-Matt
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