Lukas Märdian

github profile: https://github.com/slyon

Lukas started contributing to Debian in 2011 as part of the DebianFSO team, working on enablement of mobile devices (OpenMoko). In 2020 he started working on Ubuntu for Canonical and in 2023 he became a Debian Developer. He's the upstream maintainer of Netplan.io

Accepted Talks:

Past, Present and Future of Networking in Debian

As the upstream maintainer of Netplan, I want to discuss the current state of networking in Debian (NetworkManager on Desktop+Live images, Netplan+systemd-networkd on Cloud images, ifupdown on default d-i based images) and collect ideas of how we could improve and homogenize that landscape going forward.

/etc/network/interfaces (ifupdown) is the tried and trusted way to do networking on Debian, but many customize their installations to use alternative networking daemons such as NetworkManager or systemd-networkd instead (e.g. Bookworm cloud-images). Netplan has been the control interface for networking on Ubuntu since many years. It’s not a networking daemon in itself, but drives NetworkManager and systemd-networkd (besides others) underneath, combining the best of both worlds, while providing a common interface for network configuration.

Let’s get together, discuss the alternatives and approaches to network configuration and find a path to Debian’s networking future.