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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:
Rackspace Us, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Vishvananda Ishaya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erik Carlin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Paul Voccio, Windcrest, TX (US);
Assignee:
Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/08 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/468 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01); H04L 63/0876 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cloud computing system configured to run virtual machine instances is disclosed. The cloud computing system assigns an identity to each virtual machine instance. When the virtual machine instance accesses initial configuration resources, it provides this identity to the resources to authenticate itself. This allows for flexible and extensible initial configuration of virtual machine instances.