On Jun 17, 2015, at 23:14, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan van Eldik [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 17 June 2015 20:54
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How should an instance learn what tenant it is in?
>> 
>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>>>     I'm considering rewriting this hack to write the tenant name into
>>> the metadata directly, but that will still be a hack.
>> 
>> That's what many of our customers are doing, and I agree that it's hack.
>> 
>> We recently changed the names of some projects, and updating the
>> metadata is no fun.
>> 
>>> If not, would a
>>> nova patch that adds tenant id and name to the metadata be welcome?
>> 
>> We would welcome it. It should respect project renames, of course. :)
>> 
> 
> I'd suggest just storing the tenant id and then doing the lookup in the CLI 
> tools to be human friendly. The image handling seems to work this way so 
> copying the same structure as the image field would be consistent.
> 
> | image                                | CentOS7 
> (71093ab4-5d10-4109-86b6-ba3a82db1fb8)         |
> 
>> 
>>        cheers, Jan
>> 
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This could also be supplied by config drive/metadata service trivially. I 
wouldn't overthink it (nova already knows). 

--Morgan
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