cloud-init summit 2023

9 Aug 2023, 06:30 → 10 Aug 2023, 16:30 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, 9 August

08:50 → 09:15 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

09:00 → 09:15 discussion: Remote attendee orientation, setup welcome, schedule overview and introductions

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

09:15 → 09:30 presentation: cloud-init summit welcome / intro

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

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

09:30 → 09:50 Recent Features/Roadmap / Q&A (Brett Holman)

09:50 → 09:55 presentation: Docs person intro

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

09:55 → 10:15 presentation: FreeBSD developer/maintainer overview (Mina Galić)

10:15 → 10:35 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 → 10:55 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 → 11:15 Day1: am break

11:15 → 11:35 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 → 11:55 presentation: Integration testing updates with pycloudlib

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

12:15 → 13:15 Day1: lunch

13:15 → 13:35 presentation: LXD: config hotplug behavior

Speaker: Brett Holman (Canonical)

13:35 → 13:55 schema validation: user-data, vendor-data and network-config

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

13:55 → 14:15 presentations: subiquity: the machine behind Ubuntu's Live Server/Desktop installer offerings

14:20 → 14:40 Day1: pm break

15:15 → 15:45 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, 10 August

09:00 → 09:10 AlpineLinux developer chat (Dermot Bradley)

09:15 → 09:45 Doc overhaul and policy changes (Sally Makin)

09:45 → 10:30 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 → 10:50 Day2: am break

10:45 → 11:45 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 → 11:45 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 → 12:45 Day2: Lunch

14:15 → 14:35 Day2: PM break