Description of problem: The INSTANCE_ID setting in node.conf appears to be from internal automation scripts used for running OpenShift in the EC2. It doesn't need to be in Origin.
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin-server https://github.com/openshift/origin-server/commit/fd7296d32c9f273a52352c972bd34a8e7e3a4770 Bug 1005244 - Remove unused INSTANCE_ID setting from node.conf
It's fixed, checked on devenv_4504, please refer to the following results: [root@ip-10-47-145-158 conf]# grep INSTANCE_ID /root/.source_build/origin-server/node/conf/node.conf Results: nothing return