Recommended update for cloud-init

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:2005-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module 15-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
  • SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0
  • SUSE Manager Server 4.0

An update that has nine fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for cloud-init fixes the following issues:

  • Fixes a bug where only the last defined route was written to the routes configuration file (bsc#1132692)
  • Fixes a bug where a new network rules file for network devices didn't apply immediately (bsc#1125950)
  • Improved the writing of route config files to avoid issues (bsc#1125992)
  • Fixes a bug where OpenStack instances where not detected on VIO (bsc#1136440)
  • Fixes a bug where IPv4 and IPv6 were not set up as default routes (bsc#1121878)
  • Added a fix to prevent the resolv.conf to be empty (bsc#1119397)
  • Uses now the proper name to designate IPv6 addresses in ifcfg-* files (bsc#1126101)
  • Fixes an issue where the ifroute-eth0 file got corrupted when cloning an existing instance (bsc#1123694)

Some more fixes were included within the 19.1 update of cloud-init. Please refer to the package changelog for more details.

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-SP1
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-SP1-2019-2005=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module 15-SP1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • cloud-init-config-suse-19.1-8.3.1
    • cloud-init-19.1-8.3.1

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