<div dir="ltr">I partially agree. I do agree that I shouldn't have to crawl the API, nor do I want to. I'd like to have something similar to the metadata service that can provide only designated data to a request, much like how openstack/aws do it.<div>Ie you can get _your_ instance id, network information, etc but you can't ask about neighbors'</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Sven Kieske <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.kieske@mittwald.de" target="_blank">s.kieske@mittwald.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 01/03/17 16:53, Marc Young wrote:<br>
> What feels hacky is that I have so little information about the VM i'm<br>
> running from within that I'd have a hard time crawling the API enough to<br>
> know the information I got was about the VM I'm testing against. Per my<br>
> later email the ID in /var/lib/cloud/data/instance-<wbr>id is not the same that<br>
> I'd need to hit the REST API to describe<br>
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</span>I'm glad that this is this way.<br>
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>From a security standpoint, this would be an information leak, which<br>
enables third party users from inside the vm to attack the ovirt system.<br>
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So if you implement new features in this area, I would be very very careful.<br>
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