cloud-init summit 2023

Aug 9, 2023, 6:30 AM → Aug 10, 2023, 4:30 PM America/Los_Angeles

TBD (Microsoft Redmond Campus Bldg 40)

Chad Smith (Canonical)

Developers' summit geared towards bringing a number of influential cloud-init partners and community members together for presentations about cloud-init futures, retrospectives, policy discussions and working meetings.

 

Come help us improve the cloud-init ecosystem and community.

Make your mark. Looking for in-person or virtual attendance and presenters.

Wednesday, August 9

8:50 AM → 9:15 AM discussion: Physical attendees only: meet at MSFT Bldg 40 entrance and on-site setup of Microsoft Teams Training-

A topic for broad discussion that should be covered at the cloud-init summit

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM discussion: Remote attendee orientation, setup welcome, schedule overview and introductions

A topic for broad discussion that should be covered at the cloud-init summit

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM presentation: cloud-init summit welcome / intro

Welcome all participants to the venue, thanks for hosts and sponsors, schedule overview.

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM Recent Features/Roadmap / Q&A (Brett Holman)

9:50 AM → 9:55 AM presentation: Docs person intro

slide-driven or shared notes doc driven presentation 5-20 minutes per topic

9:55 AM → 10:15 AM presentation: FreeBSD developer/maintainer overview (Mina Galić)

10:15 AM → 10:35 AM group discussion: Specific cloud or distro state of the union related to cloud-init in images

Things worthy of sharing broadly to establish good process of pain avoidance.

10:35 AM → 10:55 AM group discussion: Operating system downsteam patch review

Looking to review downstream patch pain across various distributions to ensure cloud-init upstream behavior isn't introducing high patch maintenance cost for distribution downstreams.

10:55 AM → 11:15 AM Day1: am break

11:15 AM → 11:35 AM group discussion: Python3 release support matrix

Would like to reflect with partners and distributions what scope of python versions they actively maintain for new cloud-init releases.

11:35 AM → 11:55 AM presentation: Integration testing updates with pycloudlib

11:55 AM → 12:15 PM presentation/discussion: Security disclosure policy review

12:15 PM → 1:15 PM Day1: lunch

1:15 PM → 1:35 PM presentation: LXD: config hotplug behavior

Speaker: Brett Holman (Canonical)

1:35 PM → 1:55 PM schema validation: user-data, vendor-data and network-config

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

1:55 PM → 2:15 PM presentations: subiquity: the machine behind Ubuntu's Live Server/Desktop installer offerings

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Day1: pm break

3:15 PM → 3:45 PM rotten tomatoes: how can cloud-init upstream improve

Group discussion session to determine what behaviors andor processes from upstream need review and improvement to better support downstreams.

Thursday, August 10

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM AlpineLinux developer chat (Dermot Bradley)

9:15 AM → 9:45 AM Doc overhaul and policy changes (Sally Makin)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM presentation/discussion: boot speed and image size

Walk through current state of boot speed measurements and analysis from daily test runners.
* Define various metrics consumed, and what we look at to ensure no boot speed regressions.
* Query what data-points clouds, partners and community care about when looking at their own speed
* Determine collectively what are priority metrics/attributes of images that cloud platforms rely on when hosting images.

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Day2: am break

10:45 AM → 11:45 AM Breakout developer discussion session: 1A TBD

Placeholder for separate deeper focused discussion or development topic based on earlier conversations. This slot will be used for one of the following topic themes:
- birds of a feather working group discussion
- coding development breakout: specific feature work
- specific bug/issue work: bring your favorite bug
- policy discussions

10:45 AM → 11:45 AM Breakout developer discussion session: 1B cloud/partner sync

Placeholder for separate deeper focused discussion or development topic based on earlier conversations. This slot will be used for one of the following topic themes:
- cloud/partner sync point for features/ongoing development with Canonical support
- ongoing feature work, Q&A

11:45 AM → 12:45 PM Day2: Lunch

2:15 PM → 2:35 PM Day2: PM break