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From: Ahmad Emneina <Ahmad.Emneina@citrix.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:39:47 -0700
Subject: Re: Template Distribution
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On 7/11/12 6:02 AM, "Donal Lafferty" <donal.lafferty@citrix.com> wrote:

>Does anyone have experience using the "details" optional parameter of
>RegisterTemplate?  I'm wondering what the limits are to the 'Details'
>optional field.
>The background is that I've run into a couple of instances where people
>want to spin up VMs in CloudStack from a template that does not change
>from CloudStack to CloudStack.  E.g the VM is either their product, or a
>cloud-based VM that the product relies on.  Unfortunately, template Ids
>vary from CloudStack to CloudStack even when the image is the same.
>However, the RegisterTemplate API call allows templates to be tagged with
>additional details.  I'd like to use these as the means of discovering
>the template, but there does not seem much detail on how the field works.
>
>Can anyone give me quick example of how to add key/value pairs to the
>details parameter?  (Knowing the field size limits would be useful as
>well)
>
>

I've seen users standardize on names and deploy based on that. Outside
logic will poll for templates, match on name, then deploy using the id
associated with the name.

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