We've also seen in the past initiatives like object store and 'secondary storage free' zones. We may not want to cement the idea that we have secondary storage as a mountable filesystem that is highly available.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:40 PM Marcus <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we not rely on secondary storage for config drive? I'd much rather see > it generated dynamically into a temp space during VM start, or (less > desirable) even during VM create on primary storage (perhaps in a > configdrive) directory where the root disk resides. It just seems like a > bad idea to rely on mounting and availability of secondary storage (which > by design is supposed to be out of band from running VMs) to have a healthy > VM. People put a lot of work into their primary storage for VM > availability, not as much for secondary storage. > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 5:01 PM ilya musayev (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9813?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16084678#comment-16084678 >> ] >> >> ilya musayev commented on CLOUDSTACK-9813: >> ------------------------------------------ >> >> Hey [~KrisSterckx] [~waegemae] >> >> The idea of storing config drive on secondary store - is actually bad and >> wont be approved by Information Security teams. >> >> Regards, >> ilya >> >> > Use configdrive for userdata, metadata & password >> > -------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > Key: CLOUDSTACK-9813 >> > URL: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9813 >> > Project: CloudStack >> > Issue Type: New Feature >> > Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the >> default.) >> > Components: KVM, Network Controller, Secondary Storage, >> SystemVM, VMware >> > Affects Versions: Future >> > Reporter: Eric Waegeman >> > Assignee: Kris Sterckx >> > >> > To avoid the use of an extra VM for the virtual router we implement >> configdrive for userdata, metadata & password. >> > The configdrive ISO is created on the secondary store and the KVM & >> VMware plugins are adapted to accept the configdrive ISO as second cdrom. >> > Is applicable for isolated, VPC and shared networks. >> >> >> >> -- >> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA >> (v6.4.14#64029) >> >
