Recommended update for cloud-init

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:4288-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has seven fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for cloud-init provides the following fixes:

  • Fix a decoding error that could cause persisting the metadata to fail. (bsc#1101894)
  • Fix a problem that could cause static network to be configured with BOOTPROTO=none. (bsc#1114160)
  • Update to version 18.4, including the following fixes (bsc#1087331, bsc#1097388, bsc#1111427, bsc#1095627):
  • Avoid Python 3 dependency when building for distros with Python 2 support.
  • Add dhcp-client as requirement as cloud-init uses dhclient to setup a temporary network for metadata retrieval.
  • Use ds._crawled_metadata instance attribute if set when writing instance-data.json.
  • ec2: Update crawled metadata and add standardized keys.
  • lxd: Adjust to snap installed lxd.
  • Add support for Infiniband network interfaces (IPoIB).
  • cli: Add cloud-init query subcommand to query instance metadata.
  • stages: Fix bug causing datasource to have incorrect sys_cfg.
  • net_util: Ensure static configurations have netmask in translate_network result.
  • Fall back to root:root on syslog permissions if other options fail.
  • OpenStack: Support setting mac address on bond.
  • EphemeralIPv4Network: Be more explicit when adding default route.
  • OpenStack: Support reading of newer versions of metdata.
  • OpenStack: Fix a bug that was causing causing 'latest' version to be used from network.
  • user-data: Use jinja template to render instance-data.json in cloud-config.
  • config: Disable ssh access to a configured user account.
  • sysconfig: Refactor sysconfig to accept distro specific templates paths.
  • hyperv_reporting_handler: Simplify threaded publisher.
  • VMWare: Fix a network config bug in vm with static IPv4 and no gateway.
  • logging: Add logging config type hyperv for reporting via Azure KVP
  • Add datasource Oracle Compute Infrastructure (OCI).
  • azure: Allow azure to generate network configuration from IMDS per boot.
  • Scaleway: Add network configuration to the DataSource.
  • netplan: Correctly render macaddress on a bonds and bridges when provided.
  • tools: Add 'net-convert' subcommand command to 'cloud-init devel'.
  • Use typeset or local in profile.d scripts.
  • OpenNebula: Fix null gateway6.
  • tools: add '--debug' to tools/net-convert.py
  • update_metadata: A datasource can support network re-config every boot.
  • Retry on failed import of gpg receive keys.
  • tools: Fix run-container when neither source or binary package requested.
  • Changes from 18.3:
  • Explicitly prevent sudo access for user module.
  • lxd: Delete default network and detach device if lxd-init created them.
  • openstack: Avoid unneeded metadata probe on non-openstack platforms.
  • stages: Fix tracebacks if a module stage is undefined or empty.
  • Be safer on string/bytes when writing multipart user-data to disk.
  • Fix get_proc_env for pids that have non-utf8 content in environment.
  • netplan: Fix mtu if provided by network config for all rendered types.
  • subp: Support combine_capture argument.
  • util: Add get_linux_distro function to replace platform.dist
  • Do not use the systemd_prefix macro, not available in this environment.
  • openstack: Allow discovery in init-local using dhclient in a sandbox.
  • yaml_load/schema: Add invalid line and column nums to error message.
  • Azure: Ignore NTFS mount errors when checking ephemeral drive.
  • cc_mounts: Do not add devices to fstab that are already present.
  • ds-identify: Ensure that we have certain tokens in PATH.
  • read_file_or_url: Move to url_helper, fix bug in its FileResponse.
  • ds-identify: Recognize container-other as a container.
  • ds-identify: Remove duplicate call to is_ds_enabled.
  • azure: Add reported ready marker file.
  • netinfo: Fix netdev_pformat when a nic does not have an address assigned.
  • collect-logs: Add -v flag, write to stderr, limit journal to single boot.
  • IBMCloud: Disable config-drive and nocloud only if IBMCloud is enabled.
  • Add reporting events and log_time around early source of blocking time.
  • IBMCloud: recognize provisioning environment during debug boots.
  • net: Detect unstable network names and trigger a settle if needed.
  • sysconfig: dhcp6 subnet type should not imply dhcpv4.
  • schema: In validation, raise ImportError if strict but no jsonschema.
  • set_passwords: Add newline to end of sshd config, only restart if updated.
  • net: Depend on iproute2's ip instead of net-tools ifconfig or route.
  • renderer: Support unicode in render_from_file.
  • Implement ntp client spec with auto support for distro selection.
  • apport: Add Brightbox, IBM, LXD, and OpenTelekomCloud to list of clouds.
  • tests: Fix ec2 integration network metadata validation.
  • cc_resizefs, util: Handle no /dev/zfs.
  • The distribution indicator is set to SUSE during template expansion. Do not replace anything set to Ubuntu.
  • Do not run cloud-init after network-online, this breaks functionality in cloud-init. Certain parts of the code running in this phase expect to run before the network is on-line.
  • Root should not be enabled by default. Image builders/users that want root access by default should provide an appropriate configuration file during image build or image setup.
  • Set distribution default to OpenSUSE/SLES. (bsc#1099340)
  • Run metadata detection after network-online. (bsc#1097388)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Public Cloud Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-2018-3061=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • cloud-init-18.4-5.3.3
    • cloud-init-config-suse-18.4-5.3.3

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