gooood idea 2017-05-19 15:33 GMT+02:00 Marc-Aurèle Brothier <ma...@exoscale.ch>:
> 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 > >
