The Compute service allows VMs to query metadata associated with a VM by making a web
request to a special 169.254.169.254 address. Networking supports proxying those requests to
nova-api
, even when the requests are made from
isolated networks, or from multiple networks that use overlapping IP addresses.
To enable proxying the requests, you must update the
following fields in nova.conf
.
Item | Configuration |
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Update to |
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Update to a string "password" value. You must also
configure the same value in the
The default value of an empty string in both files
will allow metadata to function, but will not be secure
if any non-trusted entities have access to the metadata
APIs exposed by |
Note | |
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As a precaution, even when using
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