Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 31 March 2020 in status-meeting-minutes • 4 min read

Meeting information

Meeting summary

LINK: https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-03-10.html#status-2020-03-10

Previous Actions

The discussion about "Previous Actions" started at 16:22.

Recent Changes

The discussion about "Recent Changes" started at 16:23.

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 16:32.

Community Charter

The discussion about "Community Charter" started at 16:42.

Office hours (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office hours (next ~30 mins)" started at 16:45.

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People present (lines said)

  • blackboxsw (38)
  • meetingology (4)
  • rharper (2)
  • Goneri (1)
  • shibumi (1)
  • smoser (0)
  • Odd_Bloke (0)

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16:19 <blackboxsw> #startmeeting cloud-init status meeting

16:19 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Mar 31 16:19:14 2020 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

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16:19 <blackboxsw> Hello and welcome to another cloud-init community status meeting folks. please feel free to continue any current conversations

16:20 <blackboxsw> I'll interleave status meeting notes with existing conversations.

16:20 <blackboxsw> #chair Odd_Bloke smoser rharper

16:20 <meetingology> Current chairs: Odd_Bloke blackboxsw rharper smoser

16:20 <blackboxsw> our IRC channel topic carries the next planned status meeting for those that wish to participate. All are welcome to interject or drive converstation topics here

16:21 <blackboxsw> let's set that now. to +2 weeks from now

16:21 <blackboxsw> April 14th, same time

16:21 <shibumi> rharper: thanks!

16:22 <blackboxsw> Previous meeting notes are here

16:22 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-03-10.html#status-2020-03-10

16:22 <blackboxsw> The topics we generally cover in this meeting are the following: Previous Actions, Recent Changes, In-progress Development, Community Charter, Upcoming Meetings, Office Hours (~30 mins).

16:22 <blackboxsw> #topic Previous Actions

16:23 <blackboxsw> and from last meeting, no previous actions were unaccounted for.

16:23 <blackboxsw> #topic Recent Changes

16:24 <blackboxsw> recent changes landed in tip of master via git log --since 2020-03-10

16:24 <blackboxsw> #link https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/55hqVCfnpV/

16:24 <rharper> shibumi: also, the issue with openstack metadata service not being found is likely related to classless statci route support in the EphemeralDHCP class in cloud-init, we fixed an issue there last fall, https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/07b17236be5665bb552c7460102bcd07bf8f2be8

16:24 <rharper> shibumi: long term, we would like to replace dhclient with a python-based one; we've just not had a change to implement a minimal dhclient in python only

16:27 <blackboxsw> in that paste or recent changes, some big items have landed since last we 'met': both NetBSD and OpenBSD distro support is now added to cloud-init. vmware support of guest info gc status, SAP Converged cloud gets identified as OpenStack and Ubuntu Focal prioritizing netplan over ifupdown if both are present

16:28 <blackboxsw> Also Odd_Bloke has been landing and improving cloud-init automated process with near daily branches. github actions/workflows and docs about review and coding style expectations are landing to make it a lot easier for upstream to help speed contributions and reviews

16:29 <blackboxsw> Also, you'll note a lot of dropping python six and other py2-related artifacts from our codebase. Since upstream support is py3.4 or later we can simplify and prune a lot of the vestigial py2 functionality.

16:31 <blackboxsw> Ahh I also forgot, Ec2 now by default (Ubuntu Focal or tip of cloud-init) renders full networking, including secondary IPv4/IPv6 addresses, for all interfaces attached to a VM based on network config supplied by IMDS. Old releases of cloud-init used to only render basic networking on the primary (eth0) nic.

16:32 <blackboxsw> #topic In-progress Development

16:33 <blackboxsw> thanks Goneri and meena for all your the BSD ongoing development and support work there BTW

16:33 * Goneri waves

16:38 <blackboxsw> :) upstream is focused a bit on continuing to clean up py2 remnants from tip, adding support for reading netplan configuration from initramfs and continuing to add automation to the github development and release process/tooling to speed reviews.

16:39 <blackboxsw> we are also hammering the review queue a bit better than in the past with daily PR assignments to ensure the system remains more efficient

16:40 <blackboxsw> thanks again for all the code submits folks!

16:41 <blackboxsw> waiting In the wings we will eventually get around to handling the network hotplug solution for cloud-init (if configured)

16:42 <blackboxsw> #topic Community Charter

16:43 <blackboxsw> This section is generally reserved to discuss any general community goals for cloud-init. Per last cloud-init summit we discussed prioritizing the following:

16:43 <blackboxsw> * json schema validation for each cloudinit/config/cc_*py module

16:43 <blackboxsw> * correcting, extending stale datasource documentation under doc/rtd/topics/datasources

16:44 <blackboxsw> those tasks are easy to split up and so we set a goal to try to chunk through it this year

16:44 <blackboxsw> they are also categorized as bugs for easy pickup/assignment for anyone interested.

16:45 <blackboxsw> #link https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bugs?field.tag=bitesize

16:45 <blackboxsw> #topic Office hours (next ~30 mins)

16:46 <blackboxsw> thanks for listening to the above...... In this section a couple upstream devs should be available with eyes on the channel for the next 30 minutes for and bug, feature, PR review questions or concerns.

16:46 <blackboxsw> again thanks for joining. We'll have this meeting again in 2 weeks

16:47 <blackboxsw> I'm going to spend this time working on our cherry-pick script for publishing the Netplan ->` ENI work into Ubuntu Focal today.

17:17 <blackboxsw> Thanks for tuning in.

17:17 <blackboxsw> #endmeeting

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