This bugzilla goal is to complete upstream launchpad bug [0] and include it in OSP: At the moment, there is no limit on how many requests the metadata-agent will handle. Some users may sometimes run scripts in their instances that try to query the metadata endpoint at high rate (for example a bugged k8s cloud controller manager), causing an increased load on some or all the component above the metadata-agent. Spec was accepted and merged [1], but proposed code change was not fully completed [2] [0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1989199 [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron-specs/+/856831 [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/neutron/+/858879