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[Matt Joyce <matt.joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I am doing is putting credentials into user sessions on the instance.

-Matt

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Martin Packman <
martin.packman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
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