Thanks John, I'll take a look. My hacky solution of just creating an
interface for that IP on the host is working so far.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:47 PM John Meinel <j...@arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> I think the actual question is how to create a service that responds to
> metadata requests. In that case, it is a bit hard to say from the outside,
> because it is very dependent on what software-defined-networking you're
> using.
>
> 169.254.169.254 is a link-local address, which means it can't be routed
> across the network. So you have to have your SDN know where to send your
> packets (it effectively looks like the switch is the thing running the
> metadata server, because that's the only thing on the other side of a
> link-local connection).
>
> I don't have any specific information about how it is done on the various
> clouds. Though you could look at openstack which also implements a
> metadata-server and is open source code.
>
> John
> =:->
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Heather Lanigan <
> heather.lani...@canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Drew,
>>
>> Juju uses cloud-init currently when provisioning machines today.  We've
>> recently added a bootstrap configuration option to allow for cloud-init
>> yaml to
>> be passed through.
>>
>> Details can be found in an old bug:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1535891
>>
>> I need to get this added to the docs.  There is a known issue using lists
>> in the yaml file, but strings work fine.
>>
>> -Heather
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Drew Wells <drew.well...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I want to implement an aws user-data like interface. So the Ubuntu host
>>> would respond on 169.254.169.254 and this address would be routable by
>>> every juju managed machine and the containers running on those machines.
>>>
>>> Where would I get started for setting something like this up?
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