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

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

discussion: Remote attendee orientation, setup welcome, schedule overview and introductions

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

1 presentation: cloud-init summit welcome / intro

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

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

2 Recent Features/Roadmap / Q&A (Brett Holman)

presentation: Docs person intro

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

3 presentation: FreeBSD developer/maintainer overview (Mina Galić)

4 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.

5 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 Day1: am break

6 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.

7 presentation: Integration testing updates with pycloudlib

8 presentation/discussion: Security disclosure policy review

12:15 Day1: lunch

9 presentation: LXD: config hotplug behavior

Speaker: Brett Holman (Canonical)

10 schema validation: user-data, vendor-data and network-config

Speaker: Chad Smith (Canonical)

11 presentations: subiquity: the machine behind Ubuntu's Live Server/Desktop installer offerings

14:20 Day1: pm break

12 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

13 AlpineLinux developer chat (Dermot Bradley)

14 Doc overhaul and policy changes (Sally Makin)

15 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 Day2: am break

16 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

17 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 Day2: Lunch

14:15 Day2: PM break