On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:58 -0400, Mohammed Morsi wrote: > On 07/29/2010 07:56 PM, David Lutterkort wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:30 -0400, Mohammed Morsi wrote:
> > > Can you elaborate on what this RackSpace file injection feature is and > > > what it entails. Thanks. > > > > > In RS, when you create an instance, you can include up to 5 files (paths > > + contents) that will be overwritten in the instance before it is > > started (using scary uses of kpartx) It's described on page 23 of > > http://docs.rackspacecloud.com/servers/api/cs-devguide-latest.pdf > > > > David > > > > > > > Is this a critical use case? Or one that can be taken care of at some > later point? It's pretty critical, since it lets you put config data into your instance before it boots (e.g., the name of a central config server) - you can try and fake it after boot via ssh/scp, but that's much harder to get right than injecting the data. David
