NWCS

The NWCS datasource retrieves basic configuration values from the locally accessible metadata service. All data is served over HTTP from the address 169.254.169.254.

Configuration

The NWCS datasource can be configured as follows:

datasource:
  NWCS:
    url: 'http://169.254.169.254'
    retries: 3
    timeout: 2
    wait: 2

  • url: The URL used to acquire the metadata configuration.

  • retries: Determines the number of times to attempt to connect to the metadata service.

  • timeout: Determines the timeout (in seconds) to wait for a response from the metadata service

  • wait: Determines the timeout in seconds to wait before retrying after accessible failure.