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[Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much for those clarifications :D


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Sébastien Han <han.sebastien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Did I miss something?
>
>
>  Unfortunately this is confusing because the term metadata is used for two
> different things.
>
> the metadata visible to the instance is a replication of the aws metadata
> server. it is constructed from the database (mostly the instances table)
>
> The metadata you were setting with your command are sets of keys and
> values that are visible in the compute api:
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> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/developer/openstack-compute-api-1.1/content/MetadataSection.html
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> which is stored in the instance_metadata table
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>
> Last question, is there a way to update the metadata of a running
> instance. I mean instead of updating the db record... For example
> re-injecting a SSH key?
>
>
> no, there is currently no way of doing this through the api.
>
> Vish
>