In this tutorial you will learn:
I don’t get any of the above as my system seems to have install a cloud-init networking (which i didn’t want). Maybe I missed something on the install but looks like Ubuntu have gone down the microsoft route here. What was wrong with keeping to standard linux and offering clouded stuff as options not defaults ? How do I get rid of this now and go back to the old standards such as network manager. I have installed network manager but no command line / no gui / no options.
Hi Steve Downing,
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Your issue sounds like not the default installation process of Ubuntu. What installation media do you use, and on what system did you install the operating system?
The server installer ubuntu-19.04-live-server-amd64.iso . I do recall agreeing to enable openssh-server , in the install but otherwise chose defaults (I think). More’s the point is it now a matter of a complete re-install ?
If you just installed the system, the cleanest way is certainly reinstall, but if you only missing the setup tools for NetworkManager you could try something like:
# apt-get install network-manager-gnome
In case you need the graphical setup tool. Command line tools like nmcli should be present and accessible as root if you installed NetworkManager from the official repositories. Does an
# nmcli --version
Provide command-not-found like error?
Doing a complete re-install andd noticed in the logs that after installing openssh it then installs cloud-init. So perhaps I am correct and cloud-init is becoming the default if you choose openssh -server. I shall see but looks like yet another install might be needed and not choose openssh and just install that later. I did install network-manager the first time but cloud-init had assumed control of my network config.
This is for standard Ubuntu 19.04 Server install from the Ubuntu Download Website.
Thanks for your how-to. I found it mostly helpful and I think there might be some new or different syntax requirements for /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml to get it to work AFTER you disable the cloud. Fortunately one of the default files: 50-cloud-init.yaml has the correct syntax, so I just copied that into /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all.yaml and tweaked the file as needed. Here is the required syntax:
The data in the example above is generally correct, but when I tried to created a fresh netplan/01 file I was getting all these errors about indentation and code expected. Hope this helps anyone using this tutorial.