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[Brent Baude <bbaude@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The proposal to merge lp:~bbaude/cloud-init/azure_dhcp into lp:cloud-init has been updated.

Commit Message changed to:

Get Azure endpoint server from DHCP client

It is more efficient and cross-distribution safe to use the hooks function from dhclient to obtain the Azure endpoint server (DHCP option 245).  This is done by having a small bash script that is called when dhclient is nearly done.  The script logs all the known dhcp options it received. For native networking, the script goes in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d and for NetworkManager it goes in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d.  These small scripts call a singular bash script that actually writes the output to /run/cloud-init/dhcpoptions.

This output file from the script is in JSON format.

The azure helper then pulls the value from /run/cloud-init/dhcpoptions.  If that file does not exist or the value is not present, it will then fall back to the original method of scraping the dhcp client lease file.

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~bbaude/cloud-init/azure_dhcp/+merge/298677
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