Thank you for your thoughtful report! This change was not just made to be useful in cloud environments, but also is about unification of network configuration across the different variants of Ubuntu (Desktop/Server/Core/Cloud/..), to improve the UX for Ubuntu users. I understand this impacts the cross-distro compatibility of our NetworkManager packaging.
If you want to manage your NM connection profiles manually, you could place the keyfiles in /usr/lib/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and NM will pick them up as before. But those connections would no be visible to Netplan and any modifications through the NetworKManager tooling (GUI, nmtui, nmcli, ...) would write the modifications to /etc/netplan/ instead of /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2041491 Title: Provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, recently netplan added support for a yaml NM backend: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-networkmanager-yaml- settings/32420 The rationale is that "the descriptive YAML layer is especially useful in cloud environments": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/556 It's great that you care about that user group! Please also care for the rest of us that do not use cloud environments! For example, I routinely review, clone, backup or even directly edit the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections files in my desktops and servers, in all distributions. Having an Ubuntu-specific way to do things will make things harder for me. I will have to learn a new Ubuntu-specific syntax, develop scripts and methods to convert my connections between distributions, I will need to discover and report bugs in the netplan <=> nm mapping etc... I.e. Ubuntu is great for the cloud, and it's awesome that you want to provide a unified yaml-based experience for cloud-init etc. But Ubuntu is also great outside the cloud; please allow us to continue having a unified experience between distributions (i.e. directly using nm or systemd-networkd) without enforcing an Ubuntu-specific way of doing things (netplan) to us. For Ubuntu 24.04+, please provide an option to avoid the yaml NM backend, thank you very much! To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/+bug/2041491/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
