I think we had a little bit of discussion around this at CCC. Config drive really does solve a lot of problems with existing implementation of using the Cloudstack Metadata provider for cloud-init. Overall it is a much superior solution as pointed by Wido. However, we don't want to completely remove the VR based approach as things like BareMetal still require it.
Thanks, -Syed On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Rene Moser <m...@renemoser.net> wrote: > On 07/26/2017 09:00 AM, Wido den Hollander wrote: > > This has been discussed before and right now there is a PR for using > Config Drive: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2116 > > > > The problem with 169.254.169.254 is: > > > > - It doesn't work with IPv6 > > - It doesn't work with Basic Networking > > - You need to do iptables intercepting on the VR > > > > Config Drive is a IP-protocol independent solution for getting metadata > into the Instance without the need for IP connectivity. > > > > Imho that's a much better solution. > > Perfect, makes sense! Thanks for the quick reply. > > René >
