No documentation for inserting metadata when launching an instance

I'll check what is the OSAPI moves regarding the ec2 one - which natively support such.

For XenServer/XCP, the metadata service is used instead. I couldn't find any documentation on it, but config drive and the metadata service are mentioned here:

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2012/openstack-meeting.2012-05-09-17.01.log.html

Seems like config drive is likely to be replaced by the metadata service (based on the meeting log)

This is very related to the VM agent discussions.

Certainly config drive does not currently work with XenServer/XCP.
As todd says, it does work with cloud init and the metadata service.

Useful things to link to:

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit
* http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html

We've found a doc like this: http://support.rc.nectar.org.au/technical_guides/interfaces/metadata_interface.html to be necessary for our users. If that's useful for the manuals, feel free to scrape it.

Suggest putting this information in:

http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/ch_image_mgmt.html

Tom that's a nice guide you have I think I shall scrape it both for the manuals and for my internal guide if you don't mind...

No problem Jon!

Any progress on this bug ?

yes and no.

I've been blocking on https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1035734 to give me a good place to put this. and that has been blocking on time, which I've just found a small bit of...

nice one.

are you planning on updating https://review.openstack.org/#/c/12533/ to fix this one as well, or will that be another patch ?

in any case - love your work

Jon!

It's been a while since we heard from you, and your excellent patch is languishing in an abandoned state. Are you able to complete this? Is there anything we can do to help?

patch set 6 at https://review.openstack.org/#/c/12533 now includes a fix for this bug (includes info on injecting meta data, userdata, and files into instances).

Though I'm not sure how to link that to this in terms that launchpad understands.