Bug#959486: cloud-init - Enable fallback data source if nothing is detected in ds-identify
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 04:18:36PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> By fallback datasource, you mean "None"?
Yes.
> We could always reintroduce the use of debconf for datasource selection,
> and avoid depending on ds-identify at all. The nice thing about that is
> that we could then pre-fill that answer in our cloud images and
> configure an explicit datasource there, too.
> (Note that I don't actually *like* the idea of reintroducing debconf...)
Well, this would require us to disable all network based datasource by
default, so no more EC2 or network-only-openstack.
My plan was just to make sure cloud-init does minimal setup all the
time, not to break the already working cases.
Bastian
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