Lennart Poettering on Nostr: …client side to the various "instance metadata services" that clouds provide ...

…client side to the various "instance metadata services" that clouds provide ("IMDS"). IMDS is typically a small HTTP service implemented by the cloud's local, physical system that provides a bunch of JSON fragments both providing information information about the cloud's infrastructure and anything the user themselves provided. (Note that IMDS is what AWS calls this, and some other clouds, but some call it differently, though in essence it's all the same, even if in detail all…