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authorMichael Brown2017-01-23 15:41:22 +0100
committerMichael Brown2017-01-23 15:43:20 +0100
commitde85336abb7861e4ea4df2e296eb33d179c7c9bd (patch)
treed155d26521ee1a4ae45e3baeaa099756ffcf43bc /src/config
parent[virtio] Use separate RX and TX empty header buffers (diff)
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[cloud] Add ability to retrieve Google Compute Engine metadata
For some unspecified "security" reason, the Google Compute Engine metadata server will refuse any requests that do not include the non-standard HTTP header "Metadata-Flavor: Google". Attempt to autodetect such requests (by comparing the hostname against "metadata.google.internal"), and add the "Metadata-Flavor: Google" header if applicable. Enable this feature in the CONFIG=cloud build, and include a sample embedded script allowing iPXE to boot from a script configured as metadata via e.g. # Create shared boot image make bin/ipxe.usb CONFIG=cloud EMBED=config/cloud/gce.ipxe # Configure per-instance boot script gcloud compute instances add-metadata <instance> \ --metadata-from-file ipxeboot=boot.ipxe Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/config')
-rw-r--r--src/config/cloud/gce.ipxe7
-rw-r--r--src/config/cloud/general.h4
-rw-r--r--src/config/config_http.c3
-rw-r--r--src/config/general.h1
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/config/cloud/gce.ipxe b/src/config/cloud/gce.ipxe
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..95330d71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config/cloud/gce.ipxe
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!ipxe
+
+echo Google Compute Engine - iPXE boot via metadata
+ifstat ||
+dhcp ||
+route ||
+chain -ar http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/ipxeboot
diff --git a/src/config/cloud/general.h b/src/config/cloud/general.h
index e69de29b..99028c14 100644
--- a/src/config/cloud/general.h
+++ b/src/config/cloud/general.h
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/* Allow retrieval of metadata (such as an iPXE boot script) from
+ * Google Compute Engine metadata server.
+ */
+#define HTTP_HACK_GCE
diff --git a/src/config/config_http.c b/src/config/config_http.c
index 3f198d22..3c0e7802 100644
--- a/src/config/config_http.c
+++ b/src/config/config_http.c
@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@ REQUIRE_OBJECT ( httpdigest );
#ifdef HTTP_ENC_PEERDIST
REQUIRE_OBJECT ( peerdist );
#endif
+#ifdef HTTP_HACK_GCE
+REQUIRE_OBJECT ( httpgce );
+#endif
diff --git a/src/config/general.h b/src/config/general.h
index be0845f6..fb1ac93f 100644
--- a/src/config/general.h
+++ b/src/config/general.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
#define HTTP_AUTH_BASIC /* Basic authentication */
#define HTTP_AUTH_DIGEST /* Digest authentication */
//#define HTTP_ENC_PEERDIST /* PeerDist content encoding */
+//#define HTTP_HACK_GCE /* Google Compute Engine hacks */
/*
* 802.11 cryptosystems and handshaking protocols