Canonical's Netplan 1.1 Improves Compatibility With Proton VPN & Microsoft's Azure Linux

[F.Ultra]

The very first thing I do with Netplan on servers and workstations is:

dpkg --purge netplan
apt install NetworkManager

doesn't make sense, they solve two completely different tasks.

I don't like that layered config-on-config stuff. systemd-networkd works just fine, even with fancy stuff like interface bonding with a bridge interface and several VLANs.

It's a similar situation in the Linux firewall world. For example, in the KDE Plasma settings menu, there's a page for firewall configuration. Yet it requires ufw or firewalld to work. Again with the layered business, nftables is the native Linux kernel firewall and it works just fine! Just make the GUI interface control that.

The benefit is that your config gets network demon agnostic. Thanks to Netplan, Ubuntu switched seamless from NetworkManager to systemd-networkd on their servers a while back while having the desktops remain on NM and still admin was similar across the fleet.

[Quackdoc]

Never used netplan, never really needed anything more then networkmanager but that might just be because im used to it. I have however tried to make network config agnosting stuff before, would rather let my balls be used as a boxer's speedbag then go through that again, if netplan can work out well, I could see netplan being incorporated into custom networking apps directly working quite well.