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+Cloud-init summit
+=================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   summit.rst

doc/rtd/development/summit.rst

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+The cloud-init summit
+*********************
+
+One of the major highlights in our calendar is the cloud-init summit! The
+summit is an annual gathering of cloud-init contributors and community members
+held in Seattle, Washington.
+
+At the summit, we enjoy meeting with our fellow contributors to cloud-init,
+demoing recent developments, collecting feedback, and holding workshops to
+discuss outstanding issues, bugs, and possible fixes.
+
+After an unfortunate hiatus of a couple of years due to "global travel
+difficulties", we are pleased to announced that the next summit will be held in
+August 2023! More details to follow...
+
+Previous summits
+================
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+
+   cloud-init: Summit 2017 <summit/2017_summit.rst>
+   summit/2018_summit.rst
+   summit/2019_summit.rst

doc/rtd/development/summit/2017_summit.rst

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+cloud-init: Summit in Seattle, Washington
+*****************************************
+
+.. note::
+
+   This article was written by Joshua Powers and `originally published`_ on 31
+   August 2017. It is shared here `under license`_ with no changes.
+
+.. image:: 2017_seattle.jpg
+   :alt:
+   :align: center
+   :scale: 70%
+
+Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran a two-day summit
+in Seattle, Washington. The purpose of the summit was to meet with contributors
+to cloud-init from cloud providers and OS vendors to demo recent developments
+in cloud-init, resolve outstanding issues, and collect feedback on development
+and test processes as well as future features.
+
+Attendees included developers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, VMWare, and IBM
+cloud teams, as well as the maintainers of cloud-init from Red Hat, SUSE, and
+of course, Ubuntu. Special thanks go to Google for hosting us and to Microsoft
+for buying everyone dinner!
+
+.. image:: 2017_meeting.jpg
+   :alt:
+   :align: center
+
+Demos
+=====
+
+The cloud-init development team came with a number of prepared demos and talks
+that they gave as a part of the summit:
+
+* **cloud-init analyze**: Ryan demoed the recently added analyze feature to aid
+  in doing boot time performance analysis. This tool parses the cloud-init log
+  into formatted and sorted events to assist in determining long running steps
+  during instance initialization.
+* **cloud-config Schema Validation**: Chad demonstrated the early functionality
+  to validate cloud-configs before launching instances. He demoed two modules
+  that exist today, how to write the validation, and what positive and negative
+  results look like.
+* **Integration Testing and CI**: Josh demonstrated the integration test
+  framework and shared plans on running tests on actual clouds. Then showed the
+  merge request CI process and encouraged this as a way for other OSes to
+  participate.
+* **Using lxd for Rapid Development and Testing**: Scott demoed setting
+  userdata when launching a lxd instance and how this can be used in the
+  development process. He also discussed lxd image remotes and types of images.
+
+Breakout Sessions
+=================
+
+In addition to the prepared demos, the summit had numerous sessions that were
+requested by the attendees as additional topics for discussion:
+
+* Netplan (v2 YAML) as primary format
+* How to query metadata
+* Version numbering
+* Device hot-plug
+* Python 3
+* And more…
+
+During the summit, we took time to have merge review and bug squashing time.
+During this time, attendees came with outstanding bugs to discuss possible
+fixes as well as go through outstanding merge requests and get live reviews.
+
+.. image:: 2017_bridge.jpg
+   :alt:
+   :align: center
+
+Conclusions
+===========
+
+A big thanks to the community for attending! The summit was a great time to
+meet many long time users and contributors face-to-face as well as collect
+feedback for cloud-init development.
+
+`Notes of both days`_ can be found on the cloud-init mailing list. There you
+will find additional details about what I have described above and much more.
+
+Finally, if you are interested in following or getting involved in cloud-init
+development check out #cloud-init on Freenode or subscribe to the
+`cloud-init mailing list`_.
+
+.. LINKS:
+.. _originally published: https://powersj.io/posts/cloud-init-summit17/
+.. _under license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+.. _Notes of both days: https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00094.html
+.. _cloud-init mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init

doc/rtd/development/summit/2018_summit.rst

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+cloud-init: Summit 2018
+***********************
+
+.. note::
+
+   This article was written by Joshua Powers and `originally published`_ on 27
+   August 2018. It is shared here `under license`_ with no changes.
+
+.. image:: 2018_waterfront.jpg
+   :alt: Seattle waterfront
+   :align: center
+
+Last week the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran our second annual
+two-day summit. Attendees included cloud developers from Amazon, Microsoft,
+Google, VMWare, and Oracle, as well as the maintainer of cloud-init from Amazon
+Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu.
+
+The purpose of this two-day event is to meet with contributors, demo recent
+developments, present future plans, resolve outstanding issues, and collect
+additional feedback on the past year.
+
+Like last year, the even was held in Seattle, Washington. A special thanks goes
+to Microsoft for providing breakfast and lunch while hosting us and to the
+Amazon Linux and AWS teams for buying everyone dinner!
+
+.. image:: 2018_roadmap.jpg
+   :alt: Roadmap talk
+   :align: center
+
+Talks, Demos, and Discussions
+=============================
+
+The cloud-init development team came with a number of prepared demos and talks
+that they gave as a part of the summit:
+
+* **Recent Features and Retrospective**: Ryan started the summit off with an
+  overview of features landed in the past year as we all metrics since the
+  start of faster releases with date-based versioning.
+* **Community Checkpoint & Feedback**: Scott hosted a session where he explored
+  the various avenues contributors have and received input and ideas for even
+  better collaboration.
+* **Roadmap**: Ryan presented the roadmap for upcoming releases and requested
+  feedback from those in attendance.
+* **Ending Python 2.6 Support**: Scott announced the end of Python 2.6 support
+  and there was a discussion on ending Python 2.7 support as well. An
+  announcement to the mailing list is coming soon.
+* **Instance-data.json support and cloud-init cli**: Chad demoed a standard way
+  of querying instance data keys to enable scripting, templating, and access
+  across all clouds.
+* **Multipass**: Alberto from the Canonical Multipass team joined us to demo
+  the `Multipass`_ project. Multipass is the fastest way to get a virtual
+  machine launched with the latest Ubuntu images.
+* **Integration Testing and CI**: Josh gave an update on the new CI processes,
+  auto-landing merge requests, and demoed the integration tests. He went
+  through what it takes to add additional clouds and his wish-list for
+  additional testing.
+* **Pre-Network Detection for Clouds**: Chad ran a discussion on collecting
+  pre-networking detection for clouds in order to speed up instance
+  initialization and decrease boot time.
+
+Breakout Sessions
+=================
+
+In addition to the prepared demos and discussions, the summit had numerous
+sessions that were requested by the attendees as additional topics for
+discussion.
+
+SUSE led at discussion around the sysconfig renderer and network rework, while
+the Amazon Linux team discussed some of their patches. Both distros are working
+to minimize the number of patches required.
+
+During the summit, we took time to have merge review and bug squashing time.
+During this time, attendees came with outstanding bugs to discuss possible
+fixes as well as go through outstanding merge requests and get live reviews.
+
+.. image:: 2018_talk.jpg
+   :alt: Another talk
+   :align: center
+
+Conclusions
+===========
+
+As always a huge thank you to the community for attending! The summit was a
+great time to see many contributors face-to-face as well as collect feedback
+for cloud-init development.
+
+`Notes of both days`_ can be found on the cloud-init mailing list. There you
+will find additional details about what I have described above and much more.
+
+Finally, if you are interested in following or getting involved in cloud-init
+development check out #cloud-init on Freenode or subscribe to the
+`cloud-init mailing list`_.
+
+.. LINKS:
+.. _originally published: https://powersj.io/posts/cloud-init-summit18/
+.. _under license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+.. _Multipass: https://github.com/canonical/multipass
+.. _Notes of both days: https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00169.html
+.. _cloud-init mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init

doc/rtd/development/summit/2019_summit.rst

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+cloud-init: Summit 2019
+***********************
+
+.. note::
+
+   This article was written by Joshua Powers and `originally published`_ on 21
+   October 2019. It is shared here `under license`_ with no changes.
+
+.. image:: 2019_market.jpg
+   :alt: Seattle market
+   :align: center
+
+Last month the cloud-init development team from Canonical ran our third annual
+two-day summit. Attendees included cloud developers from Amazon, Cisco,
+Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, as well as the maintainers of cloud-init from
+Amazon Linux, SUSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu.
+
+The purpose of this two-day event is to meet with contributors, demo recent
+developments, present future plans, resolve outstanding issues, and collect
+additional feedback on the past year.
+
+Like last year, the even was held in Seattle, Washington. A special thanks goes
+to Amazon for providing breakfast and lunch while hosting us!
+
+Topics and Decisions
+====================
+
+Here are summary of some of the topics discussed during the sprint:
+
+* **New Security Process**: I proposed a process by which security issues would
+  be reported to the project, how they would be evaluated, fixed, and
+  eventually disclosed. While this is not fully complete, the process has
+  already been `used once`_ to evaluate what turned out to be non-security
+  issues.
+* **Boot Performance**: Ryan started the second day off talking about the boot
+  performance analysis that he is conducted. He has proposed an initial branch
+  with changes to help many clouds improve their time to SSH. While this work
+  will involve effort across platforms, kernels, distros, and cloud-init, we
+  can already start to make changes to cloud-init.
+* **GitHub Transition**: We are moving the project to GitHub in an effort to
+  continue to gather contributions and improve our merge proposal process. We
+  have some early testing and CI branches ready to go. We are waiting on some
+  open questions around the CLA and mirroring back to Launchpad to continue the
+  move.
+* **Python Support**: The last release of cloud-init in 2019 is the final
+  version to support python 2.7. We will cut a branch for future bug fixes.
+  After that master will now support Python 3.4 going forward. A future
+  discussion around how to move the Python 3 version is needed. See the
+  `mailing list post`_ for more details.
+* **Red Hat Support**: Edwardo gave a presentation on Red Hat’s process around
+  cloud-init. He showed the versions they are on and what they do when a new
+  release comes out.
+
+Working Sessions
+================
+
+During the summit, we took time to have merge review and bug squashing time.
+During this time, attendees came with outstanding bugs to discuss possible
+fixes as well as go through outstanding merge requests and get live reviews.
+
+.. image:: 2019_amazon.jpg
+   :alt: Another talk
+   :align: center
+
+Thank you
+=========
+
+As always a huge thank you to the community for attending! The summit was a
+great time to see many contributors face-to-face as well as collect feedback
+for cloud-init development.
+
+`Notes of both days`_ can be found on the cloud-init mailing list. There you
+will find additional details about what I have described above and much more.
+
+Finally, if you are interested in following or getting involved in cloud-init
+development check out #cloud-init on Freenode or subscribe to the
+`cloud-init mailing list`_.
+
+.. LINKS:
+.. _originally published: https://powersj.io/posts/cloud-init-summit19/
+.. _under license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
+.. _used once: https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00228.html
+.. _mailing list post: https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00227.html
+.. _Notes of both days: https://lists.launchpad.net/cloud-init/msg00226.html
+.. _cloud-init mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cloud-init