cloud-init 17.2 Released
Joshua Powers
on 15 December 2017
As announced, cloud-init 17.2 was released this week. From the announcement, some highlights include:
- CLI added the clean and status subcommands
- Support for identifying OVF datasource provided by VMware
- NoCloudKVM tests now run in continuous integration
- Formalize DataSource get_data and related properties
- Remove prettytable dependency and introduce simpletable
Version 17.2 is already available in Ubuntu Bionic. Onward to 18.1!
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