On Apr 10, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: > Having the ability to read config data from a runtime changeable > metadata server (rather then a config file on an injected disk) serves a > use case I am interested in. The only problem is horizontal scalability > of the metadata server in this model which may not be a problem with > some tinkering. > > Can you please share that use case? I'm especially interested in finding use > cases that would not better be better served by e.g. SSH or Zookeeper or > Corosync..
One advantage of a network metadata channel is it allows for communication with cloud provider services without having to put a key into the vm. In other words, the vm can be authenticated via its ipv6 address. Vish
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