Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden John G Heim
It' may be worse than you know. Netplan uses something called yaml for it's config files. YAML is a newish config language, sort of a replacement and/or competitor for XML. I am no fan of XML, believe me. I'm blind, you sighted people think you have it hard editing XML config files, try doing

Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:05:18 +0200, Robert Markula > said: > Two questions arose so far: > 1. Is the 'UBUNTU' class intended to be complementing the 'DEBIAN' class > or does it completely replace the DEBIAN class? yes, it is complementing the Debian class. > 2.

Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden Justin Cattle
Personally - I like yaml and use it a lot for many things :) I've never liked xml on the other hand! Cheers, Just On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 16:07, John G Heim wrote: > It' may be worse than you know. Netplan uses something called yaml for > it's config files. YAML is a newish config language,

Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden John G Heim
Well, I pulled a Bart Simpson. I tried for about 10 minutes and gave up. Bakc with Ubuntu 16.04, I tried modifying the old networking script using the ifclass command. If the UBUNTU class was defined, it generated a /etc/netplan/10-interfaces file. Otherwise, it ran the old code to generate a

Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Hi, I'm currently in the process of updating tried-and-trusted FAI 4.2.5 to 5.7.2 and completely reworking the config space in the process, starting with the examples provided by fai-doc (which, btw, has been quite a surprisingly pleasant experience so far, as fewer customization is necessary in

Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

2018-10-17 Diskussionsfäden Justin Cattle
We have quite a lot invested in ifupdown - we won't be using netplan for servers on bionic. I know that's not a helpful response, but if you decide not to use netplan you won't be the only people :) Cheers, Just On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 15:11, John G Heim wrote: > Well, I pulled a Bart