On 11/27/19 4:50 PM, Thomas Haller wrote: > Hello, > > > We (NetworkManager) are working on a tool that should help > configuring > NetworkManager in cloud. > > This is for example for configuring the secondary IP addresses on > AWS/EC2 ([1], [2]) > > [1] > https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-centos-rhel-se... > [2] > https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-ubuntu-seconda... > > > It's inspired by and serves a similar purpose as SuSE's cloud- > netconfig > ([3], [4]) and ec2-net-utils package on Amazon Linux ([5]). > > [3] https://www.suse.com/c/multi-nic-cloud-netconfig-ec2-azure/ > [4] https://github.com/SUSE-Enceladus/cloud-netconfig > [5] https://github.com/aws/ec2-net-utils > > > > The tool can be triggered via a systemd.timer and/or a > NetworkManager > dispatcher scripts. Then it fetches meta data from the Instance > Metadata Service (thereby detecting whether it runs in a cloud > environment). Finally it configures the networking using > NetworkManager. > > Currently it only supports EC2 and IPv4. But if the tool shows to > be > useful, it could be extended to also support other cloud providers > (Azure). > > > There is a merge request on review ([6], [7]). There is a bit of a > hurry to get this merged, because it should make the cut for the > next > NetworkManager release. So, I will merge it soon to master, albeit > still in an experimental state. > > [6] > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/merge_reques... > [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1642461 > > > The plan is that cloud images could install and enable the tool, so > you > boot a (Fedora) image and networking would just work. > > > Is there interrest in something like this? Any comments, questions? I think the cloud images are already using Network Manager. Would we need to include another rpm and enable a service?