Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/metadata-service-network-info.

Description:

Currently the ec2 metadata service only contains minimal network information.

Really we should provide all the information we can (from neutron) in both config drive and metadata service.

Example usecase: consider a VM with the first interface configured by DHCP, and all other interfaces on private networks where the interfaces are statically configured, but you are not using config drive, just the metadata service, and not cheating by doing file injection, presenting the data in a guest agnostic format.

More discussion here:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/IcehouseNovaMetadataService

Specification URL (additional information):

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