Hi, Yesterday at ApacheCon Kris from Nuage networks gave a great presentation about alternatives for userdata from the VR: Config Drive
In short, a CD-ROM/ISO attached to the Instance containing the meta/userdata instead of having the VR serve it. The outstanding PR [0] uses it's own format on the ISO while cloud-init already has support for config drive [1]. This format uses 'openstack' in the name, but it seems to be in cloud-init natively and well supported. I started the discussion yesterday during the talk and thought to take it to the list. My opinion is that we should use the OpenStack format for the config drive: - It's already in cloud-init - Easier to templates to be used on CloudStack - Easier adoption We can always write a file like "GENERATED_BY_APACHE_CLOUDSTACK" or something on the ISO. We can also symlink the 'openstack' directory to a directory called 'cloudstack' on the ISO. Does anybody else have a opinion on this one? Wido [0]: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2097 [1]: http://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/datasources/configdrive.html#version-2
