Comment 68 for bug 1770082

Resetting to verification-done for bionic; using netplan.io 0.40.1~18.04.1:

I have run more tests and I can verify that renames at boot are behaving correctly with netplan -- netplan follows exactly the configuration provided on the system:

network:
    version: 2
    ethernets:
        ens6:
            match:
                macaddress: 52:54:00:ab:37:d8
            mtu: 1500
            addresses:
            - 10.3.21.28/20
            gateway4: 10.3.16.1
            nameservers:
                addresses:
                - 10.3.21.25
                search:
                - cloud.cyphermox.net
            set-name: myiface11

This leads to my system having a single interface "myiface11":

ubuntu@new-man:~$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: myiface11: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:ab:37:d8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I have removed the duplicate tag from bug 1768827 so we can keep investigating and figure out why this isn't working for Nicorac; it looks like there's something competing with netplan somewhere, either from cloud-init or something else.