On 04/10/2012 12:36 PM, Andrew Bogott wrote: > What I crave is a communication channel between nova and running > instances. There was discussion at some point about extending the > metadata api to have this ability. > > Having a solid config drive standard seems like a good idea, but it > won't get me run-time interaction, will it? > > -Andrew > +1
Having the ability to read config data from a runtime changeable metadata server (rather then a config file on an injected disk) serves a use case I am interested in. The only problem is horizontal scalability of the metadata server in this model which may not be a problem with some tinkering. Regards -steve > On 4/10/12 11:40 AM, Eric Windisch wrote: >> I maintain my stance from pre-Diablo, that the configuration drive >> should be exported as a virtual cdrom device with an ISO9660 >> filesystem. We can generate the filesystem without root access and the >> filesystem is well-supported. Additionally, it lacks the >> patent-related issues associated with the other many-platform >> filesystems (i.e. FAT). >> >> Also, doing the above happens to make the configuration-drive >> surprisingly similar to the optional sub-feature of OVF. I'm not sure >> what priority OVF is for Nova (it is a low priority for me), but it >> might be worth considering, especially since Glance seems to advertise >> some OVF support. >> >> -- >> Eric Windisch >> >> On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Scott Moser wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Andrew Bogott wrote: >>> >>>> I'm reviving this ancient thread to ask: Will there be a code summit >>>> session >>>> about this? And/or are there plans to start developing a standard set of >>>> guest agents for Folsom? >>> >>> http://summit.openstack.org/sessions/view/100 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack> >>> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >>> <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net> >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >>> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eopenstack> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp