Ubuntu 17.10 will finally unify and clean network settings

Ubuntu 17.10

In August of last year, Canonical's Martin Pitt, an administrator of systemd for Ubuntu, he announced the company's plans to unify and clean the network settings on Ubuntu Linux.

In this way, they have presented netplan, a project that promised centralize all network settings for all versions of Ubuntu operating systemIncluding Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core (Snappy) under a single file (for example /etc/netplan/*.yaml) instead of using the / etc / network / interfaces files.

The implementation of netplan in Ubuntu supposes the replacement of ifupdown and the ability for installers to generate only those YAML-based network configuration files, giving Ubuntu developers the flexibility to dynamically switch between multiple backends, such as Network Manager and systemd-networkd.

Netplan will be the default configuration method for networks in Ubuntu 17.10

Ubuntu 17.10

Today, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre of Canonical announced that netplan has reached the repositories of the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 operating system (Artful Aardvark) as the default configuration method for networks, thus replacing ifupdown. It is currently included in the minimal images and should be available for all new installations.

Considering that Ubuntu 17.10 is an operating system still in development, not everything will work as it should, so if you do not want to see how netplan or ifupdown disappear from your default apps, do not hesitate to send a bug report through the Launchpad or contact the developer through the ad above.

A simple netplan configuration was implemented in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) version for Ubuntu Desktop images in order to allow NetworkManager to control network devices, but will now be default for Ubuntu 17.10 operating system, intended for appear later this year on October 19, 2017.


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  1.   Sebastian cardozo said

    A system garbage is ubuntu, I am disappointed. I used a time on 12.04 and then 14.04 and both stopped working after some system updates, Nothing further than windows ...

    1.    Emmanuel Lucio U said

      Oo what mistakes do I present to you?

    2.    Arthur Plus said

      What errors no ... hahaha ... I got an error at the start and I don't even remember what it was, but it happened when I installed gnme shell and when I changed the session, look for the solution to the maximum since it happened on a lap and on a desktop As I did not find the solution, the best thing was to reinstall, but in this case mint, that if it is ten! (happened on ubuntu 14.04)

    3.    louis miralles said

      I've used Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint since 2012, and it is true that Mint is by far the distro for the average user. In comparison, "Bugguntu" continues to amaze me with its instability. Eye, I said in comparison. I don't know how the Mint guy gets that polished distro, I haven't seen anything like it. It is the system that I would install on my mother's laptop, who has never used a computer. Wait, I already did.

  2.   David84 said

    I don't know what kind of PC Ubuntu is installed on, the users who say that Ubuntu is rubbish, because at least in my case, I have been using it for years and it has always worked very well for me, with its errors (there is no perfect OS) , including the latest LTS, which is going very well.