In our most recent meeting, we discussed possibly updating cloud-init in stable. [1] This would be our first first time performing a feature-update to a stable release, even though the stable release managers some time ago indicated a willingness to let us do that.
In order to get that process started, I have constructed a "buster-p-u" branch on salsa and begun testing cloud-init 19.3 on buster on AWS. [2] There was some mention of cloud-init modifications to support Azure during the meeting, and waldi has an ACTION to follow up on them. Would an update to 19.3 include these changes, or are they something additional? What's the status of them? If anybody wants to help test cloud-init, I have an apt repo and a pre-built AMI that I can share. Or you can build your own packages based on the branch on salsa. Feedback and bugfixes would certainly be welcomed. Testing on non-AWS providers would be especially helpful. I'm also hoping to update the awscli and boto packages, but those packages aren't maintained by the cloud-team, so the situation is somewhat different. I will follow up with the maintainers separately. noah 1. http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-cloud/2019/debian-cloud.2019-12-11-19.00.txt 2. https://salsa.debian.org/noahm/cloud-init/tree/buster-p-u