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The images that we build for SWITCHengines users are currently configured to use only the Ec2 data source. This is configured (at least on Debian/Ubuntu) in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/91-dib-cloud-init-datasources.cfg, which includes something like
datasource_list: [ Ec2, None ]
Some users may want to use ConfigDrive as a data source instead. Possible reasons include paranoia (the unsecured HTTP-over-IPv4 access to the metadata server might be intercepted), or the fact that IPv6-only instances cannot access the metadata server at all. Therefore it would seem better to change the default to e.g.
datasource_list: [ ConfigDrive, Ec2, None ]
For those users who don't user config drives (that is the vast majority of users now), this shouldn't change anything. The hope is that cloud-init will quickly and discreetly (e.g. without generating scary error messages) determine that no ConfigDrive source is present, and fall back to the usual Ec2 data source. That would need to be verified.
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There are other possible reasons to use config drives: For example, a user may not trust our network-based (HTTP) metadata service... with some reason, because in the past, we sometimes had trouble with DHCP or metadata servers. Config drives make them immune against those issues.
The images that we build for SWITCHengines users are currently configured to use only the
Ec2
data source. This is configured (at least on Debian/Ubuntu) in/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/91-dib-cloud-init-datasources.cfg
, which includes something likeSome users may want to use
ConfigDrive
as a data source instead. Possible reasons include paranoia (the unsecured HTTP-over-IPv4 access to the metadata server might be intercepted), or the fact that IPv6-only instances cannot access the metadata server at all. Therefore it would seem better to change the default to e.g.For those users who don't user config drives (that is the vast majority of users now), this shouldn't change anything. The hope is that cloud-init will quickly and discreetly (e.g. without generating scary error messages) determine that no
ConfigDrive
source is present, and fall back to the usualEc2
data source. That would need to be verified.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: