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[Martin Packman <martin.packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/07/2012, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The OpenStack Compute API POST /servers command creates a server UUID
> that is passed back in the initial response and allows the user to query
> the status of the server throughout its launch sequence.

I'm not really seeing how that improves on the situation compared to
the EC2 api. If a server needs to know its own id, it must either
communicate with an external service or be able to use the compute
api, which means putting credentials on the instance. Or am I missing
a trick?

Martin