Cloud-init bi-weekly status

Posted on Tue 14 April 2020 in status-meeting-minutes • 4 min read

Meeting information

Meeting summary

LINK: https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-03-31.html#status-2020-03-31

Recent Changes

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

In-progress Development

The discussion about "In-progress Development" started at 16:27.

Office hours (next ~30 mins)

The discussion about "Office hours (next ~30 mins)" started at 16:34.

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People present (lines said)

  • blackboxsw (38)
  • meetingology (6)
  • powersj (2)
  • Goneri (2)
  • otubo (1)
  • punkgeek (1)
  • rharper (1)
  • smoser (0)
  • powers (0)
  • Odd_Bloke (0)

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16:17 <blackboxsw> #startmeeting cloud-init status meeting

16:17 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Apr 14 16:17:46 2020 UTC. The chair is blackboxsw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.

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16:18 <blackboxsw> hey folks, time for cloud-init community status meeting

16:19 <powersj> \o/

16:19 <otubo> Right on time :-)

16:20 <blackboxsw> welcome again to our bi-weekly status meeting feel free to interject comments, questions, suggestions during this status meeting. Generally it is an opportunity for upstream to provide a frequent platform communication and drop-in discussion when a couple of upstream devs are available.

16:20 <blackboxsw> #chair Odd_Bloke smoser rharper powers

16:20 <meetingology> Warning: Nick not in channel: powers

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

16:20 <blackboxsw> #chair powersj

16:20 <meetingology> Current chairs: Odd_Bloke blackboxsw powers powersj 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> any objections to same time on Apr 28th?

16:21 <powersj> nah that's a good day given we want to cut 20.2 then

16:21 <blackboxsw> ok topic set for next meetin

16:22 <blackboxsw> our last meeting minutes can be found on github at

16:22 <blackboxsw> #link https://cloud-init.github.io/status-2020-03-31.html#status-2020-03-31

16:23 <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).

16:23 <blackboxsw> #topic Previous Actions

16:23 <blackboxsw> none listed from last meeting

16:23 <blackboxsw> #topic Recent Changes

16:24 <blackboxsw> git commits landed in tip since Mar 31: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/VptqRBfVfJ/ found by git log --since 03-31-2020

16:26 <blackboxsw> changes sport doc updates, otubo's cc_mount fix , better url handling for regions which contain underscores in their name and openbsd fixes from Goneri for passwd locks.

16:27 <blackboxsw> thanks for the contributions this round folks!

16:27 <blackboxsw> #topic In-progress Development

16:30 <blackboxsw> upstream is currently focused on getting in bug fixes, dropping remnants of py2 in tooling reviewing active PRs to get cloud-init in shape for the upcoming 20.2 release

16:31 <blackboxsw> community notice: as mentioned in the channel topic, Apr 28th is our upstream release date for 20.2

16:31 <blackboxsw> community notice: we ask that pull requests or bugs that need resolution for 20.2 be up for review by Friday April 24th so there is time to review and merge those fixes.

16:32 <blackboxsw> active pulls indended for the release should be up in github at https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pulls

16:32 <blackboxsw> intended rather

16:32 <blackboxsw> #topic Community Charter

16:33 <blackboxsw> his section is generally reserved to discuss any general community goals for cloud-init, at last cloud-init summit we defined those goals as:

16:33 <blackboxsw> - datasource doc fixes

16:33 <blackboxsw> - json schema validation for each cloudinit/config/cc_*py modules

16:34 <blackboxsw> there are feature bugs created for these tasks at https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bugs?field.tag=bitesize

16:34 <blackboxsw> #topic Office hours (next ~30 mins)

16:35 <blackboxsw> During office hours a couple of upstream devs will have eyes on this channel. Any questions, comments, branch reviews are fair game for discussion.

16:36 <blackboxsw> In leiu of active discussions, developers will be grooming the active pull request review queue to unblock branch authors.

16:37 <punkgeek> Odd_Bloke: No it doesn't work. why there is no way to config cloud-init in kvm virtualization rather than iso, like vm xml file?

16:37 <blackboxsw> I'm getting through a belated review on https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/298

16:42 <blackboxsw> punkgeek: like seeding ovf-env.xml? https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/master/doc/sources/ovf/README

16:46 <rharper> punkgeek: you might want to look at virt-install , they recently have added support for providing cloud-config to VMs; virt-install is a wrapper around creating VMs utilizing libvirt as a backend, https://athinapl.home.blog/2019/08/25/gsoc-2019-cloud-init-configuration-for-virt-manager-virt-install/

16:54 <Goneri> punkgeek, or you can take a look at virt-lightning

16:54 <Goneri> punkgeek, it's basically a CLI to use libvirt+cloud-init

17:03 <blackboxsw> Goneri: review done. sorry for the delay on such a minor set of change requests https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/298/files#

17:09 <blackboxsw> https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/uss-tableflip/pull/45 I think comments are resolved

17:11 <blackboxsw> I think we are at about the turn of the hour for cloud-init status. I'm going to review https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/305 next

17:11 <blackboxsw> thanks all for tuning in. see you next time

17:12 <blackboxsw> #endmeeting

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