Hi Widoo, That sounds like a pretty good idea in my opinion. +1 for adding it
Marco > On 19 May 2017, at 15:15, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > 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
