CloudStack¶

max_wait: the maximum amount of clock time in seconds that should be spent searching metadata_urls. A value less than zero will result in only one request being made, to the first in the list. (default: 120)
timeout: the timeout value provided to urlopen for each individual http request. This is used both when selecting a metadata_url and when crawling the metadata service. (default: 50)

Apache CloudStack expose user-data, meta-data, user password and account SSH key thru the Virtual-Router. The datasource obtains the VR address via dhcp lease information given to the instance. For more details on meta-data and user-data, refer the CloudStack Administrator Guide.

URLs to access user-data and meta-data from the Virtual Machine. Here 10.1.1.1 is the Virtual Router IP:

http://10.1.1.1/latest/user-data
http://10.1.1.1/latest/meta-data
http://10.1.1.1/latest/meta-data/{metadata type}

Configuration¶

The following configuration can be set for the datasource in system configuration (in /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg or /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/).

The settings that may be configured are:

max_wait: the maximum amount of clock time in seconds that should be spent searching metadata_urls. A value less than zero will result in only one request being made, to the first in the list. (default: 120)

timeout: the timeout value provided to urlopen for each individual http request. This is used both when selecting a metadata_url and when crawling the metadata service. (default: 50)

An example configuration with the default values is provided below:

datasource:
 CloudStack:
  max_wait: 120
  timeout: 50
  datasource_list:
    - CloudStack