Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 04 September 2018 in status-meeting-minutes • 5 min read

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LINK: https://cloud-init.github.io/ LINK: https://trello.com/b/hFtWKUn3/daily-cloud-init-curtin LINK: https://powersj.github.io/post/cloud-init-summit18/

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 16:22.

Office Hource (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office Hource (next ~30 mins)" started at 16:30.

Active review queue scrub (and open discussion/office hours)

The discussion about "Active review queue scrub (and open discussion/office hours)" started at 16:41.

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  • blackboxsw (60)
  • smoser (8)
  • meetingology (3)
  • marcoceppi (2)
  • ubot5 (1)

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16:08 <blackboxsw> #startmeeting Cloud-init bi-weekly status meeting

16:08 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Sep 4 16:08:21 2018 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

16:08 <meetingology>

16:08 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick

16:08 <marcoceppi> rharper: oddly enough, that didn't work. root wasn't set

16:08 <marcoceppi> I'll bother you all after the meeting

16:08 <blackboxsw> or during marcoceppi :) sorry for the delay folks, I lost internet for a bit and just got it back up.

16:09 <blackboxsw> let's kickoff the bi-weekly status meeting and see what discussion we have for today

16:09 <blackboxsw> Our agenda is the following: Previous Actions, Recent Changes, In-progress development and office hours (~30 minutes)

16:09 <blackboxsw> #topic Previous Actions

16:10 <blackboxsw> the only logged action per last meeting was the following:

16:10 <blackboxsw> rharper/blackboxsw close out on this review before cloud-init summit https://code.launchpad.net/~andyliuliming/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/351742

16:11 <blackboxsw> we were able to land that branch at the cloud-init summit 2 weeks ago and also landed a followup fix for a lock race condition related to that changeset

16:11 <blackboxsw> so we can cross that one off the list

16:11 <blackboxsw> .... and for those following from home. our meeting minutes from the last status meeting are here

16:11 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/

16:13 <blackboxsw> Also generically we had a number of action items that came out of our Seattle cloud-init summit with various cloud and distribution partners. Our team will be having a review meeting to discuss some of those actions/decisions and ultimately convert them into trello work items on our board

16:13 <blackboxsw> #link https://trello.com/b/hFtWKUn3/daily-cloud-init-curtin

16:16 <blackboxsw> #topic Recent Changes

16:17 <blackboxsw> Over the last couple weeks Microsoft hosted a very producting Cloud-init Summit conference in Seattle. A number of clouds and distribution vendors participated to set goals for the cloud-init upstream project. powersj wrote up a nice post to capture some of that work. Thank you all for partipating and helping to improve cloud-init

16:17 <blackboxsw> #link https://powersj.github.io/post/cloud-init-summit18/

16:19 <blackboxsw> also the following changes landed upstream:

16:21 <blackboxsw> - Add unit tests for config/cc_ssh.py [Francis Ginther]

16:21 <blackboxsw> - Fix the built-in cloudinit/tests/helpers:skipIf

16:21 <blackboxsw> - read-version: enhance error message [Joshua Powers]

16:21 <blackboxsw> - hyperv_reporting_handler: simplify threaded publisher

16:21 <blackboxsw> - VMWare: Fix a network config bug in vm with static IPv4 and no gateway.

16:21 <blackboxsw> [Pengpeng Sun] (LP: #1766538)

16:21 <blackboxsw> - logging: Add logging config type hyperv for reporting via Azure KVP

16:21 <blackboxsw> [Andy Liu]

16:21 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1766538 in cloud-init (Ubuntu) "network customization with cloud-init does not work on Ubuntu18.04 Beta2 Server" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1766538

16:22 <blackboxsw> #topic In-progress Development

16:23 <blackboxsw> as always, check our board if there are questions about what we are working on the cloud-init side of the house. any cloud-init cards will have a cloud-init label

16:23 <blackboxsw> #link https://trello.com/b/hFtWKUn3/daily-cloud-init-curtin?menu=filter&filter=cloud-init

16:24 <blackboxsw> we are working a couple of fixes for Oracle as well as the following features that could be interesting to folks:

16:24 <blackboxsw> - the ability to use jinja templating in cloud-config or user-scripts to reference any standardized instance meta data cloud-init consumes

16:26 <blackboxsw> - allowing new ssh user config in #cloud-config to specify a ssh-redirect-user, which would allow someone to disable an existing ssh user and provide a redirect message mentioning which username is the preferred default user

16:28 <blackboxsw> - ryan is working on refactoring the sysconfig renderer align multiple distros, so that we don't have slightly different implementations in cloud-init for each distribution

16:28 <blackboxsw> #link https://code.launchpad.net/~raharper/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/353740

16:29 <blackboxsw> beyond that, there a number of new contibutions that have been generated by some of the amazon folks that we plan on reviewing and landing for better amazon linux support

16:30 <blackboxsw> thanks again for all the good work. I think we'll transition to the open forum for any discussion/feature/bug work.

16:30 <blackboxsw> #topic Office Hource (next ~30 mins)

16:31 <blackboxsw> we'll have eyes on this channel for the next 30 mins. any topic is acceptable; big or small. Bugs, discussions, features, complaints etc.

16:31 <smoser> o/

16:31 <blackboxsw> sorry for the interrupt earlier :)

16:40 <blackboxsw> Since we have a clear discussion docket for office hours... At the summit we decided maybe it would be a good idea to try reviewing our active review queue to keep the momentum going there and avoid stale branches sitting unresolved for a while.

16:41 <blackboxsw> smoser: rharper you gents up for taking a swing at our review queue in this forum to see if we can prioritize what needs landing/response etc?

16:41 <blackboxsw> #topic Active review queue scrub (and open discussion/office hours)

16:42 <smoser> sure.

16:42 <blackboxsw> I wanted to see if we could land Praveen's branch for Amazon linux support.

16:42 <blackboxsw> #link https://code.launchpad.net/~praween/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/353733

16:42 <blackboxsw> their CI needs a new makefile target "sources"

16:43 <blackboxsw> I suggested that maybe they add that functionality into ./packages/brpm instead of just the commands on the cli

16:44 <blackboxsw> since we use brpm in our ci too. ....

16:44 <blackboxsw> Praveen had agreed at the summit to make some changes to extend brpm with a new cmdline option to do this work. But I don't see anything pushed. I'd like to mark this work in progress and comment to that affect. sound good?

16:46 <smoser> blackboxsw: that sounds good

16:49 <blackboxsw> smoser: ok https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/354001 I'll grab today after this meeting so we can land all the leaky unit tests. geez man

16:49 * blackboxsw grabs the review slot

16:50 <blackboxsw> I believe robert's branch is tabled until ryan's sysconfig branch is landed

16:50 <blackboxsw> #link https://code.launchpad.net/~rjschwei/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/333904

16:50 <blackboxsw> ^ should we mark this 'work in progress' as it's blocked? or maybe just leave it in the active queue

16:51 <smoser> blackboxsw: your needs information still stands right?

16:51 <smoser> lets move it to work-in-progress and ask for response and also ask if it is sitll necessary (unless you know that it is or is not)

16:52 <smoser> and suggest that it will need to be re-worked.

16:53 <blackboxsw> smoser: that sounds good. my 'needs information' on that is resolved/read/discussed already. so I should abstain for the moment until the rework

16:57 <blackboxsw> ok couple more minutes... any additional reviews we should look at in earnest now?

16:58 <blackboxsw> I kinda want to hold on https://code.launchpad.net/~tamilmani1989/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/336392 until we have our summit retro meeting today

16:59 <blackboxsw> here's a short one. https://code.launchpad.net/~otubo/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/353436. should we mark this 'work in progress' until smoser's review comments are addressed and unit tests added?

16:59 <smoser> blackboxsw: yeah. i'll do that.

17:00 <blackboxsw> ok thanks. and I think that'll about wrap it for today. If we don't resolve the other community reviews by next status meeting, we can continue chipping away at this queue then.

17:01 <blackboxsw> I'll post the minutes to cloudinit.github.io just after this.

17:01 <smoser> blackboxsw: i'm loking at rharper's mp now for the system config

17:01 <blackboxsw> ok I'll get your review on https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/354001 now

17:01 <blackboxsw> #endmeeting

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