Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] File injection, config drive and cloud-init

2015-06-11 Thread Ian Wells
On 11 June 2015 at 15:34, Michael Still wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Mark Boo wrote: > > - What functionality is missing (if any) in config drive / metadata > service > > solutions to completely replace file injection? > > None that I am aware of. In fact, these two other options pr

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] File injection, config drive and cloud-init

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Still
Hi! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Mark Boo wrote: [snip] > Now my questions are: > > - Is this (file injection using image mounting) likely to be deprecated at > some point in the future? Yes, we've been building up to that for a long time and I can't see is not doing it. Its important beca

[openstack-dev] [nova] File injection, config drive and cloud-init

2015-06-11 Thread Mark Boo
Hello, I've been doing some research about file injection in VM instances at boot time, I found[1] that there are several ways of doing it, including mounting images[2] (using guestfs, loops and nbd), using config drive (creating a device and making it available to mount it in the instance) and us