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[Andrew Bogott <abogott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Happy tag day, everyone!

    The next thing I'm going to work on (for Nova/Folsom) is adding an 
API to assist with Puppet configuration on nova instances.  The 
blueprint for that is here:

http://wiki.openstack.org/PuppetConfigForNova

    I welcome comments on that proposal.

    There's a fair bit of hand-waving in the Implementation section 
when it comes to the question of how exactly Nova will communicate 
puppet config to an instance.  Ideally I would like to use file 
injection to drop a site.pp file directly onto the instance.  My fear, 
though, is that file injection is not supported widely enough for me to 
rely on it.  Is that right?  Are there plans to support file injection 
on non-Xen hypervisors (most importantly, on KVM?)
    If I can't rely on file injection, then I probably need to use 
metadata instead.  Is metadata injection more widely supported than file 
injection?  And, is there any kind of 'standard' pattern for instance 
daemons that notice and respond to metadata changes (e.g. the guest 
agents module), or would I just adlib that part?

Thanks!

-Andrew