From 9af42fcebc785bf8a792ce61c8e88cce55837cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Szumski Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 17:00:56 +0200 Subject: Support copying static Vendordata file into Nova API container Nova provides a mechanism to set static vendordata via a file [1]. This patch provides support in Kolla Ansible for using this feature. Arguably this could be part of a generic mechansim for copying arbitrary config, but: - It's not clear if there is anything else that would take advantage of this - One size might not fit all [1] https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#api.vendordata_jsonfile_path Change-Id: Id420376d96d0c40415c369ae8dd36e845a781820 --- doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst b/doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst index ecb2c8732..490516909 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/compute/nova-guide.rst @@ -56,3 +56,12 @@ Cells Information on using Nova Cells V2 to scale out can be found in :doc:`nova-cells-guide`. + +Vendordata +========== + +Nova supports passing deployer provided data to instances using a +concept known as Vendordata. If a Vendordata file is located in the +following path within the Kolla configuration, Kolla will +automatically use it when the Nova service is deployed or +reconfigured: ``/etc/kolla/config/nova/vendordata.json``. -- cgit v1.2.3