Ubuntu Server development summary – 11 September 2018

Chad Smith

on 11 September 2018

This article is more than 6 years old.


The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list.

Spotlight: cloud-init user-data templates

Cloud-init version 18.3.39 adds jinja template support for user-data scripts and cloud config. As part of this feature, any cloud metadata crawled by cloud-init is presented as template variables. Any cloud-provided metadata such as ip addresses, hostname, region, availability_zone can be referenced in user-data cloud config or scripts without having to crawl and parse metadata in separate tooling.

Since cloud-init generalizes some of this instance metadata across all clouds, it now allows user-data to be more flexible when deploying to different cloud platforms. See Using instance metadata for more information.

cloud-init

Below are commits landed in upstream cloud-init project since the last dev-summary

  • user-data: jinja template to render instance-data.json in cloud-config (LP: #1791781)
  • config: disable ssh access to a configured user account
  • tests: print failed testname instead of docstring upon failure
  • tests: Disallow use of util.subp except for where needed.
  • sysconfig: refactor sysconfig to accept distro specific templates paths
  • gce: Backport GCE datasource functionality from Xenial to Trusty [Shane Peters]
  • released to Ubuntu Cosmic: cloud-init v.18.3.38

Contact the Ubuntu Server team

Bug Work and Triage

Ubuntu Server Packages

Below is a summary of uploads to the development and supported releases. Current status of the Debian to Ubuntu merges is tracked on the Merge-o-Matic page. For a full list of recent merges with change logs please see the Ubuntu Server report.

Proposed Uploads to the Supported Releases

Please consider testing the following by enabling proposed, checking packages for update regressions, and making sure to mark affected bugs verified as fixed.

Total: 4

Uploads Released to the Supported Releases

Total: 7

Uploads to the Development Release

Total: 20

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