[Openstack] How should an instance learn what tenant it is in?

Jan van Eldik Jan.van.Eldik at cern.ch
Wed Jun 17 18:54:03 UTC 2015


Hi Andrew,

>      I'm considering rewriting this hack to write the tenant name into
> the metadata directly, but that will still be a hack.

That's what many of our customers are doing, and I agree that it's hack.

We recently changed the names of some projects, and updating the 
metadata is no fun.

> If not, would a
> nova patch that adds tenant id and name to the metadata be welcome?

We would welcome it. It should respect project renames, of course. :)


        cheers, Jan




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