Auto-connection of slots/plugs for preinstalled snaps

Simon Fels simon.fels at canonical.com
Wed Jun 8 11:40:44 UTC 2016


On 08.06.2016 13:30, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> 
> Simon, we'll enable you to specify in a declarative way which interfaces you 
> want connected and what attributes they should have the first time the device boots.
> 
> This will override auto-connection completely, since it's the device itself 
> telling what it wants.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:mark at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Simon
> 
>     We need two "at-boot" stories.
> 
>     One is a first-boot story, things like filesystem expansion and the
>     device instantiation aspects of cloud-init (user creation for example).
> 
>     The other is a console experience, so before there are users one can do
>     things like network config.
> 
>     Steve, Loic and Ryan cc'd are the folks to touch base with on these fronts.

Thanks guys. Any time line for when this will be ready?

regards,
Simon

>     Mark
> 
>     On 08/06/16 17:46, Simon Fels wrote:
>      > Hey everyone,
>      >
>      > with putting several snaps into place (network-manager, modem-manager,
>      > ...) we're now moving towards getting them preinstalled on customer
>      > devices. The missing bit for this is that something has to connect all
>      > the plugs/slots either at pre installation or first-boot time.
>      >
>      > What is the current plan to solve this?
>      >
>      > regards,
>      > Simon
>      >
> 
> 
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