Dear Debian Cloud team, an Ubuntu developer recently reported a bug in open-iscsi (#866213) that when booting from iSCSI in automatic mode, where the network interface information is populated via iBFT, the /run/net-*.conf generated by open-iscsi always contains PROTO=none, which apparently breaks cloud-init.
I've uploaded a fix for this to sid (open-iscsi/2.0.874-4), but I'm wondering whether I should also do a stable update. Since I've never tested any Debian cloud images (I'm only using local VMs for my own tests), I don't have any first-hand experience with this. I'd be happy to go through the pu process to do a stable update, but I don't want to waste my time if you (the Debian cloud team) don't support this use case anyway. So: do you think that people might build Debian cloud images from Stretch that boot from iSCSI and use cloud-init? If you think that there is a userbase for that, or even if there currently is none but you think it'd be good to support this, I'd happily make sure that the Stretch package is updated. Thanks, Christian For reference: https://bugs.debian.org/866213 PS: The Jessie open-iscsi package doesn't support setting the network configuration from iBFT at all, that was added in Stretch, so this doesn't apply to Jessie. In case someone was wondering.
