Comment 3 for bug 1368861

Hi Will!

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. In an effort to keep
an up-to-date and valid list of bugs to work on, I have reviewed this
report verifying it still requires effort and occurs on a supported
version of Ubuntu.

Take a read first at the boot stage document:
https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/boot.html

The local stage blocks networking from coming up in the first place as
you suggested in your bug report. This allows local datasources to
provide input on the system configuration. Then the service stage
brings up networking.

My apologies that you did not receive a more prompt reply. I am however
moving the bug to 'Incomplete'. If you disagree or have new information,
we would be grateful if you could please add a comment stating why and
then change the status of the bug to 'New'.