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[Mitchell Broome <mitchell.broome@xxxxxxxxx>]

We are using metadata tags to maintain assorted information about
instances that doesn't have to be provided to the instance it's self.
Things like letting users assign notes to their instances which
shouldn't be exposed as userdata (which we use to configure the
machines).  It would be really nice to have metadata exposed via the
ec2 compatibility api with create_tags() and the like as right now, I
have to create an exception to set tags on instances differently when
they are created in openstack vs amazon.

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:10 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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