[Openstack] Tenant name from within an instance

gustavo panizzo (gfa) gfa at zumbi.com.ar
Thu Feb 18 15:32:10 UTC 2016


If you are using automation outside the instance (for example to create the instance) you can pass arbitrary metadata to the instance

Check nova meta and nova boot --meta 

On February 18, 2016 10:56:57 PM GMT+08:00, "Davíð Örn Jóhannsson" <davidoj at siminn.is> wrote:
>In order to access the API, I'd already have to know the Tenant name. 
>
>This is for automation purposes where I need to be able to run scripts
>with unique parameters/name per each tenant.
>
>________________________________________
>Frá: Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com>
>Sent: 18. febrúar 2016 14:53
>Til: Davíð Örn Jóhannsson
>Afrit: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>Efni: Re: [Openstack] Tenant name from within an instance
>
>Hey,
>
>I don’t think there is an alternative, you will need to make an API
>call to get the name.
>
>The Nova API doesn’t know anything about tenant/project names, it only
>works with IDs anyways.
>
>Mohammed
>
>On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Davíð Örn Jóhannsson
><davidoj at siminn.is> wrote:
>> I'm currently looking for ways to be able to retrieve information on
>what
>> tenant a given openstack instance lives in from within that instance
>it
>> self.
>>
>>
>> This information is not available from
>> http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data and setting up a nova client
>to
>> access the api is not the way I want to go.
>>
>>
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