saltstack/salt — pull request #11823 by gtmanfred (2014-04-07 21:19:50+00:00)
Title: Use the service_catalog, auth_token, and bypass_url in order to decrease authentications

If you set the region you want to work in, these patches will decrease the number of times you are actually authenticating. Before it would authenticate on every call to SaltNova, but now, by specifying bypass_url and the auth_token on the first authentication, the api only has to query the auth_token on the first try.

Instead of doing almost 20 authentications, it now only does 2.
The first one is to send the boot a server command, and the second one is for during the watch_ip potion of the create function in salt-cloud.