On 14/12/15, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 23:30 +0530, Kushal Das wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This email is to resume the discussion on putting Networkd as network > > stack in Fedora Cloud Atomic and base images. During Fedora 23 release > > we had some discussion on the same. I made couple of images [1], and > > also AMI on AWS [2], so that people can play around. > > > > Major Hayden did some excellent write up [3] [4] [5] about Networkd in > > Fedora [6]. > > > > Last time when we discussed this issue, one of the major concern was QA > > cycle. We all know how much overloaded the QA team is. Now we have some > > level of automated testing (increasing regularly), and also a new > > volunteer group from the Cloud SIG to help by doing manual QA on the > > images. If we can make a list of things to be tested (or what all tests > > are currently being done) on the network stack for current Fedora > > releases, we all can help in, and make sure that the images with this > > new feature get proper testing. > > The thing is that it's almost impossible to say "if we just run all X > tests, we can guarantee everything is fine!" in real life, especially > at the level of something as complex as an entire OS networking stack. > It's simply an unavoidable fact of life that the more network > configuration stacks we have in mass usage, the more likely it is that > there will be problems. We already have the legacy network.service and > NetworkManager, adding a third choice is kind of egregious. > The third choice is already in the images along with systemd. We are talking about enabling it as default networking stack. Ubuntu already has a beta implementation in place with network instead of networking scripts.
If we have to stay ahead in innovation, we have to do things for the "First" of our four foundation. We were ahead in adopting systemd, we should do the same for Networkd. Kushal -- Fedora Cloud Engineer CPython Core Developer CentOS Cloud SIG lead http://kushaldas.in _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org
