>The current issue I need to resolve is that the tests require that the >hostname be retrieved via API (which isn't possible). Yet to think a >workaround.
Oh, I see. In this case, I'd say don't worry and go ahead overwriting the hostname check, as we do in [cloudsigma](https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/blob/master/cloudsigma2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudsigma2/compute/CloudSigma2ComputeServiceLiveTest.java#L51-L54). Not all providers offer the same feature set (for example not all providers have user metadata, etc), so it is OK to relax/remove some checks. The important thing is that the node provisioning flow works as expected and that all supported template options are also taken into account. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-labs/pull/145#issuecomment-103013522
