cloud-init

cloud-init should support iproute2 tools

Bug #1739023 reported by Robert Schweikert
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cloud-init
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Older ifconig, route, netstat, and arp tools are being deprecated on Linux distributions. cloud-init should in all cases support the newer iproute2 tools.

ifconfig used in:
    cloudinit/sources/DataSourceAzure.py
    cloudinit/netinfo.py
    tools/mock-meta.py

netstat used in:
    cloudinit/netinfo.py

route used in:
    cloudinit/config/cc_disable_ec2_metadata.py

Related branches

~james-hogarth/cloud-init:net-tools-deprecation
Rejected for merging into cloud-init:master
Chad Smith: Disapprove
Server Team CI bot: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
Diff: 632 lines (+378/-124)
2 files modified
cloudinit/netinfo.py (+215/-64)
cloudinit/tests/test_netinfo.py (+163/-60)
Scott Moser (smoser)
Changed in cloud-init:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Revision history for this message
Robert Schweikert (rjschwei) wrote :

cloudinit/sources/DataSourceAzure.py -> ifconfig used only in freeBSD block
tools/mock-meta.py -> ifconfig in comment

No changes needed for those files.

Revision history for this message
James Falcon (falcojr) wrote :

iproute2 tools are now only used as a fallback when ip tools aren't installed.

Changed in cloud-init:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
James Falcon (falcojr) wrote :

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/3086

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