Public bug reported: Hi, recently netplan added support for a yaml NM backend:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-networkmanager-yaml- settings/32420 The rationale is that "the descriptive YAML layer is especially useful in cloud environments": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/556 It's great that you care about that user group! Please also care for the rest of us that do not use cloud environments! For example, I routinely review, clone, backup or even directly edit the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections files in my desktops and servers, in all distributions. Having an Ubuntu-specific way to do things will make things harder for me. I will have to learn a new Ubuntu-specific syntax, develop scripts and methods to convert my connections between distributions, I will need to discover and report bugs in the netplan <=> nm mapping etc... I.e. Ubuntu is great for the cloud, and it's awesome that you want to provide a unified yaml-based experience for cloud-init etc. But Ubuntu is also great outside the cloud; please allow us to continue having a unified experience between distributions (i.e. directly using nm or systemd-networkd) without enforcing an Ubuntu-specific way of doing things (netplan) to us. For Ubuntu 24.04+, please provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend, thank you very much! ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2041491 Title: Provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, recently netplan added support for a yaml NM backend: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-networkmanager-yaml- settings/32420 The rationale is that "the descriptive YAML layer is especially useful in cloud environments": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/556 It's great that you care about that user group! Please also care for the rest of us that do not use cloud environments! For example, I routinely review, clone, backup or even directly edit the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections files in my desktops and servers, in all distributions. Having an Ubuntu-specific way to do things will make things harder for me. I will have to learn a new Ubuntu-specific syntax, develop scripts and methods to convert my connections between distributions, I will need to discover and report bugs in the netplan <=> nm mapping etc... I.e. Ubuntu is great for the cloud, and it's awesome that you want to provide a unified yaml-based experience for cloud-init etc. But Ubuntu is also great outside the cloud; please allow us to continue having a unified experience between distributions (i.e. directly using nm or systemd-networkd) without enforcing an Ubuntu-specific way of doing things (netplan) to us. For Ubuntu 24.04+, please provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend, thank you very much! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/2041491/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
