cloud-init/TODO.rst

Things that cloud-init may do (better) someday

• Consider making failsafe DataSource
  • sets the user password, writing it to console
• Consider a previous DataSource, if no other data source is found, fall back to the previous one that worked.
• Rewrite cloud-init-query (currently not implemented)
• Possibly have a DataSource expose explicit fields:
  • instance-id
  • hostname
  • mirror
  • release
  • ssh public keys
• Remove the conversion of the ubuntu network interface format conversion to a RH/fedora format and replace it with a top level format that uses the netcf libraries format instead (which itself knows how to translate into the specific formats). See for example netcf which seems to be an active project that has this capability.
• Replace the apt* modules with variants that now use the distro classes to perform distro independent packaging commands (wherever possible).
• Replace some the LOG.debug calls with a LOG.info where appropriate instead of how right now there is really only 2 levels (WARN and DEBUG)
• Remove the cc_ prefix for config modules, either have them fully specified (ie cloudinit.config.resizefs) or by default only look in the cloudinit.config namespace for these modules (or have a combination of the above), this avoids having to understand where your modules are coming from (which can be altered by the current python inclusion path)
• Instead of just warning when a module is being ran on a unknown distribution perhaps we should not run that module in that case? Or we might want to start reworking those modules so they will run on all distributions? Or if that is not the case, then maybe we want to allow fully specified python paths for modules and start encouraging packages of ubuntu modules, packages of rhel specific modules that people can add instead of having them all under the cloud-init root tree? This might encourage more development of other modules instead of having to go edit the cloud-init code to accomplish this.