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                                            Chad Smith

Cloud-init 23.4 introduces hard requirement on snap store connectivity for `package_update_upgrade_install`

@MggMuggins thank you for filing this bug and improving cloud-init. We originally thought we may treat this as won't fix for a couple of reasons: 1. This feature `package_upgrade: true`...

Docs module generation from YAML instead of python meta dicts

ok this PR is ready for review. Best way to test the branch is to either: - compare [public docs](https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules.html) against tox -e doc; xdg-open ./docs/rtd_html/referece/modules.html --- OR --- ```...

[docs]: missing redirect (en/latest/topics/availability.html)

Thank you for filing the bug @AjBreidenbach and making cloud-init better. We have updated a number of missed URL redirects. One of which is this availability page link.

[docs]: missing redirect (en/latest/topics/availability.html)

Configuration and redirects have been added in our RTD config. The link https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/availability.html automatically forwards to the right upstream doc url.

No longer ignores unmatched ethernet devices

Thank you for filing this bug and attaching logs for both 23.1 and 24.1 to compare against. When looking through those logs I see one stark difference in the environment...

feat(snap): avoid refresh on package_upgrade: true and refresh.hold

> ```yaml > ```yaml > upgrade: true > snap: > upgrade: true > ``` Thanks a lot @holmanb. While I agree with your sentiment that allowing cloud-config syntax to be...

feat(snap): avoid refresh on package_upgrade: true and refresh.hold

> Using the same configuration across different package managers is itself a minority use case, yet this was chosen as a key design point for cloud-init's package management design. >...

[enhancement]: Add support for exherbo distro

@alexandrebrg thank you for filing this feature request and making cloud-init more relevant on more distributions. This request makes sense and we can definitely assist and help shepherd this work...

`cloud-init status --long` reports `done degraded` and exits 2 on retries when accessing the Azure IMDS

Thanks @renanrodrigo for filing the details here related to symptoms that appear to be racy in nature. Per the symptoms we see, cloud-init first tries [/instance?api-version=2021-08-01&extended=true](https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/cloudinit/sources/azure/imds.py#L196) and immediately falls through...

fix: cc_user_groups incorrectly assumes "useradd" never locks password field

Given that we want security review on this behavior let's push this to 24.3 milestone to make sure we can come up with an acceptable/explicit solution that allows password-less account...