I happened upon a thread about OVN’s proposal for how to handle nova metadata traffic, which linked to this very good Suse blog post about how metadata traffic is routed in neutron. I’m just adding the link here because I think it will be useful to others. The OVN proposal is also an interesting read.
Tag: metadata
Nova vendordata deployment, an excessively detailed guide
Nova presents configuration information to instances it starts via a mechanism called metadata. This metadata is made available via either a configdrive, or the metadata service. These mechanisms are widely used via helpers such as cloud-init to specify things like the root password the instance should use. There are three separate groups of people who…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 3: Compression and Other Metadata
Writing the summary of Chapter 2 seemed to work as a warmup for me the other day, so I thought I would write about Chapter 3 as a warm up for working some more on Chapter 7. I also need to look at reviewer comments for Chapters 2, 3, and 4 sometime today, so it…