Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 08 October 2019 in status-meeting-minutes • 9 min read

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Previous Actions

The discussion about "Previous Actions" started at 16:23.

Recent Changes

The discussion about "Recent Changes" started at 16:25.

  • ACTION: blackboxsw verify cpc image builds are unpaused/unblocked for Azure

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 16:36.

Community Charter

The discussion about "Community Charter" started at 16:44.

Upcoming meetings and releases

The discussion about "Upcoming meetings and releases" started at 16:47.

  • ACTION: upstream cloud-init email about 19.3 release date

Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office Hours (next ~30 mins)" started at 16:52.

  • ACTION: revisit python deprecation and report to mailinglist

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  • blackboxsw (110)
  • ubot5 (8)
  • AnhVoMSFT (8)
  • meetingology (8)
  • Odd_Bloke (7)
  • rharper (3)
  • ahosmanmsft (1)

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16:18 <blackboxsw> #startmeeting Cloud-init bi-weekly status

16:18 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Oct 8 16:18:28 2019 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

16:18 <meetingology>

16:18 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick

16:18 <blackboxsw> Welcome back folks o/ And thanks AnhVoMSFT for the ping to get us started

16:18 <blackboxsw> #chair rharper Odd_Bloke

16:19 <blackboxsw> #chair rharper Odd_Bloke

16:19 <meetingology> Current chairs: Odd_Bloke blackboxsw rharper

16:19 <blackboxsw> cloud-init upstream uses this meeting as a platform for community updates, feature/bug discussions, and an opportunity to get some extra input on current development.

16:19 <Odd_Bloke> o/

16:19 <Odd_Bloke> Thanks for the reminder, Anh.

16:19 <blackboxsw> Feel free to interject at any time. Our typical format is the following: Previous Actions, Recent Changes, In-progress Development, Office Hours (~30 mins).

16:21 <blackboxsw> For this, and subsequent, status meetings I proposed we add a new topic: Ongoing Community Charter which would give context on the new trello lane we added at the cloud-init summit.

16:21 <blackboxsw> Odd_Bloke: rharper AnhVoMSFT does that sound good? We can then better advertise and remind about long-term community involvement projects that are available for anyone

16:22 <AnhVoMSFT> I would propose that the last agenda item of any status meeting would be to update the banner to reflect the next status meeting - and perhaps the next ETA for next release / SRU

16:22 <blackboxsw> +1 AnhVoMSFT that sounds good too.

16:22 <AnhVoMSFT> yep, sounds good on the Community Charter

16:22 <rharper> AnhVoMSFT: +1

16:22 <rharper> I think one topic each

16:22 <rharper> and end with the next status meeting

16:23 <blackboxsw> ok starting to turn the meeting crank

16:23 <blackboxsw> #topic Previous Actions

16:23 <blackboxsw> last meeting was 09/09/2019

16:23 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2019-09-09.html#status-2019-09-09

16:23 <blackboxsw> meeting minutes at the link above ^

16:24 <blackboxsw> only action was #action blackboxsw send email to the list notifying of status meeting day change.

16:24 <blackboxsw> which was done https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00224.html

16:24 <blackboxsw> no further outstanding actions from last meeting

16:25 <blackboxsw> #topic Recent Changes

16:25 <blackboxsw> The following branches have landed in tip since last meeting: via git log --since 2019-09-09

16:27 <blackboxsw> - Add RbxCloud datasource [Adam Dobrawy]

16:27 <blackboxsw> - get_interfaces: don't exclude bridge and bond members (LP: #1846535)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - Add support for Arch Linux in render-cloudcfg [Conrad Hoffmann]

16:27 <blackboxsw> - util: json.dumps on python 2.7 will handle UnicodeDecodeError on binary

16:27 <blackboxsw> (LP: #1801364)

16:27 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1846535 in cloud-init "cloud-init 19.2.36 fails with python exception "Not all expected physical devices present ..." during bionic image deployment from MAAS" [Critical,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1846535

16:27 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1801364 in cloud-init "persisting OpenStack metadata fails" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1801364

16:27 <blackboxsw> oopsie daisy

16:27 <AnhVoMSFT> :)

16:27 <blackboxsw> got kicked on flood. chunking that now

16:27 <blackboxsw> - Add RbxCloud datasource [Adam Dobrawy]

16:27 <blackboxsw> - get_interfaces: don't exclude bridge and bond members (LP: #1846535)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - Add support for Arch Linux in render-cloudcfg [Conrad Hoffmann]

16:27 <blackboxsw> - util: json.dumps on python 2.7 will handle UnicodeDecodeError on binary

16:27 <blackboxsw> (LP: #1801364)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - debian/ubuntu: add missing word to netplan/ENI header (LP: #1845669)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - ovf: do not generate random instance-id for IMC customization path

16:27 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1845669 in cloud-init "The meaning of "Changes to it will not persist across an instance." in 50-cloud-init.yaml is unclear" [Undecided,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1845669

16:27 <blackboxsw> - sysconfig: only write resolv.conf if network_state has DNS values

16:27 <blackboxsw> (LP: #1843634)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - sysconfig: use distro variant to check if available (LP: #1843584)

16:27 <blackboxsw> - systemd/cloud-init.service.tmpl: start after wicked.service

16:27 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1843634 in cloud-init (Suse) "cloud-init misconfigure the network on SLES" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1843634

16:27 <blackboxsw> [Robert Schweikert]

16:27 <blackboxsw> - docs: fix zstack documentation lints

16:28 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1843584 in cloud-init "cloudinit/net/sysconfig.py lacks support for openSUSE 15.x and Tumbleweed" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1843584

16:28 <blackboxsw> - analyze/show: remove trailing space in output

16:28 <blackboxsw> - Add missing space in warning: "not avalid seed" [Brian Candler]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - pylintrc: add 'enter_context' to generated-members list

16:28 <blackboxsw> - Add datasource for ZStack platform. [Shixin Ruan] (LP: #1841181)

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: organize TOC and update summary of project [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - tools: make clean now cleans the dev directory, not the system

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: create cli specific page [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1841181 in cloud-init "add datasource for ZStack" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1841181

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: added output examples to analyze.rst [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: doc8 fixes for instancedata page [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: clean up formatting, organize boot page [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - net: add is_master check for filtering device list (LP: #1844191)

16:28 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1844191 in cloud-init "azure advanced networking sometimes triggers duplicate mac detection" [Critical,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1844191

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: more complete list of availability [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: start FAQ page [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - docs: cleanup output & order of datasource page [Joshua Powers]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - Brightbox: restrict detection to require full domain match .brightbox.com

16:28 <blackboxsw> - VMWware: add option into VMTools config to enable/disable custom script.

16:28 <blackboxsw> [Xiaofeng Wang]

16:28 <blackboxsw> - net,Oracle: Add support for netfailover detection

16:28 <blackboxsw> - atomic_helper: add DEBUG logging to write_file (LP: #1843276)

16:28 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1843276 in cloud-init "cloudinit.atomic_helper.write_file should have the same logging as util.write_file" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1843276

16:29 <blackboxsw> Thanks Brian, Shixin Ruan, Conrad Hoffmann, Adam Dobrawy and robjo for the contributions over the last month!

16:29 <blackboxsw> beyond tip commits to cloud-init the upstream team went through two SRUs of cloud-init

16:30 <blackboxsw> it's also excellent to see new datasources like the RbxCloud datasource added

16:31 <blackboxsw> cloud-init just passed validation for Ubuntu Xenial, Bionic and Disco on the 2nd SRU 19.2-36-g059d049c-0ubuntu2

16:31 <blackboxsw> cloud-images today should have that updated revision in them I blieve

16:32 <blackboxsw> there are fixes for both Azure accelerated networking support and handling issues seen on MAAS network bridge configuration

16:32 <AnhVoMSFT> on that note the last Azure image we had published was early September, which still didn't have the first SRU

16:32 <AnhVoMSFT> is there something going on with the image publishing pipeline again?

16:33 <blackboxsw> AnhVoMSFT: the publishing pipeline paused while we sorted the 2nd SRU pass for maas network bridge issues introduced by 19.2-36-g059d049c-0ubuntu1

16:33 <AnhVoMSFT> i see - that makes sense

16:34 <blackboxsw> 19.2-36-g059d049c-0ubuntu2 was verified as fixing all support there for both Azure and MAAS datasources and the expectation is that image builds are continuing today but I'll verify that the box is ✔ there on images rebuilding

16:34 <Odd_Bloke> There may also be Azure-specific publication pipeline issues, which we wouldn't necessarily know about off-hand.

16:34 <blackboxsw> #action blackboxsw verify cpc image builds are unpaused/unblocked for Azure

16:34 * meetingology blackboxsw verify cpc image builds are unpaused/unblocked for Azure

16:34 <blackboxsw> thx Odd_Bloke right

16:35 <blackboxsw> looks like Odd_Bloke is already on that verification internally

16:35 <blackboxsw> ok so SRU is through verification on our side. cloudimages should be getting latest version of cloud-init for Xenial, Bionic and Disco imminently

16:36 <blackboxsw> I think that is it for Recent Changes

16:36 <blackboxsw> #topic In-progress Development

16:37 <blackboxsw> the SRU verification work took a bit of steam out of our current work in progress as it involved a lot of manual and upgrade scenario tests.

16:37 <blackboxsw> But, as always we try to track ongoing work in trello

16:37 <blackboxsw> #link https://trello.com/b/hFtWKUn3/daily-cloud-init-curtin

16:38 <blackboxsw> there are a number of branches in progress that are of interest:

16:39 <blackboxsw> Azure CI for one would be a great add for cloud-init's CI infrastructure

16:39 <blackboxsw> https://code.launchpad.net/~ahosmanmsft/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/372957

16:39 <blackboxsw> we need to get eyes on that this week if we can

16:39 <blackboxsw> #action cloud-init upstream review https://code.launchpad.net/~ahosmanmsft/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/372957

16:39 * meetingology cloud-init upstream review https://code.launchpad.net/~ahosmanmsft/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/372957

16:39 <ahosmanmsft> That would be great

16:40 <blackboxsw> there are also a number of freebsd branches that need to close out.

16:40 <blackboxsw> and I know Odd_Bloke has started peeking at some initial github integration for CI.

16:40 <blackboxsw> Odd_Bloke: any details you want to add about github CI at the moment?

16:41 <Odd_Bloke> I've started iterating on a Travis configuration to run what we currently run in our CI pipeline.

16:41 <Odd_Bloke> Unsurprisingly, setting up linting/unit testing was easy.

16:42 <Odd_Bloke> The other thing we do is run some integration testing from a built deb file. I got as far as being able to successfully sbuild the package in Travis, and ran into some initial stumbling blocks with running lxd.

16:42 <Odd_Bloke> That's as far as I've got, I expect to pick that work back up this week.

16:42 <blackboxsw> thanks Odd_Bloke , I've added the following card to trello for those interested.

16:43 <blackboxsw> #link https://trello.com/c/pqA1adVM/1195-investigate-adding-github-travis-ci-to-cloud-init

16:43 <blackboxsw> I think that about wraps in progress work. We'll tackle reviews a bit at the end of the meeting

16:43 <blackboxsw> ok next topic

16:44 <blackboxsw> #topic Community Charter

16:45 <blackboxsw> at the cloud-init summit we decided to highlight community work in trello so that any community member with some dev cycles and interest can join in and contribute to ongoing tasks

16:45 <blackboxsw> that lane is now in trello representing low-hanging-fruit content that upstream cloud-init is interested in completing, and that anyone can commit to.

16:45 <blackboxsw> #link https://trello.com/b/hFtWKUn3/daily-cloud-init-curtin

16:46 <blackboxsw> the lane is labelled "Community low-hanging-fruit" and currently contains a number of doc update work items as well as json schema validation extensions for each cloud-init config module

16:47 <blackboxsw> we invite everyone to participate and feel free to grab those items as they have interest

16:47 <blackboxsw> we'll revisit this topic in each meeting so folks have context

16:47 <blackboxsw> #topic Upcoming meetings and releases

16:48 <blackboxsw> cloud-init upstream has just passed validation of cloud-init 19.2.36-*-ubuntu2 which should approved for upload into Xenial, Disco and Bionic (and queued for Eoan)

16:48 <blackboxsw> the cloud build team will be generating images for various clouds imminently and we will confirm that build pipelines are active so platforms get new bits asap

16:50 <blackboxsw> 19.3 upstream should by coming shortly, we will update the topic with the expected upstream release date and send an email to the mailing list with the estimated upstream cut

16:51 <blackboxsw> #action upstream cloud-init email about 19.3 release date

16:51 * meetingology upstream cloud-init email about 19.3 release date

16:52 <blackboxsw> next meeting is Oct 22

16:52 <blackboxsw> same bat time same bat channel

16:52 <blackboxsw> #topic Office Hours (next ~30 mins)

16:52 <blackboxsw> we spend this time for reviews, bug triage and cloud-init discussions.

16:53 <blackboxsw> upstream devs should have eyes on this channel. Thanks everyone for tuning in

16:54 <AnhVoMSFT> have you had a chance to discuss about the python deprecation issue, or did the SRU verification take most of the time since the summit

16:58 <blackboxsw> AnhVoMSFT: last week was vacation plus the remainder of us on sru verification .

17:00 <blackboxsw> But now we have cleared that hurdle we should we able to discuss it this week.

17:00 <AnhVoMSFT> yep, sounds good.

17:01 <blackboxsw> #action revisit python deprecation and report to mailinglist

17:01 * meetingology revisit python deprecation and report to mailinglist

17:01 <blackboxsw> Good meeting for actions

17:54 <blackboxsw> Thanks for the participation folks I'll publish minutes to github

17:54 <blackboxsw> #endmeeting

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