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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It might be nice to set it up so that openstack admins can add metadata
values to the metadata server for installation wide use.

-Matt

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Steve Baker <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Vish
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya
> <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Metadata is supposed to be user "tags" that are associated with a guest
> > that are available via the api. We discussed displaying these tags inside
> > the guest as well.
>
> I've just been looking into what is already in place to implement the
> CreateTags, DeleteTags, DescribeTags API and I also came across the
> *_instance_metadata compute API.
>
>
> http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html#Using_Tags_API
>
> The tags API can add tags to a number of resource types, but currently
> there only seems to be a metadata tables for instances and volumes.
>
> Would there be interest in me working on a change to implement
> CreateTags, DeleteTags, DescribeTags for instances and volumes?
>
> Later changes could add new metadata tables for the other taggable
> resource types.
>
> cheers
>
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