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[Chad Smith <chad.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The proposal to merge ~chad.smith/cloud-init:cc-ntp-schema-validation into cloud-init:master has been updated.

Description changed to:

cc_ntp: Add schema definition and passive schema validation.

cloud-config files are very flexible and permissive. This branch adds a supported schema definition to cc_ntp so that we can properly inform users of potential misconfiguration in their cloud-config yaml.

This first branch adds a jsonsschema definition to the cc_ntp module and validation functions in cloudinit/config/schema which will log warnings about invalid configuration values in the ntp section.

A cmdline tools/cloudconfig-schema is added which can be used in our dev environments to quickly attempt to exercise the ntp schema. Eventually this cloudconfig-schema tool will evolve into a cmdline tool we can provide to users or a validation service which will allow folks to test their cloud-config files without having to attempt deployment to find errors or inconsistencies.

LP: #1692916

To test:

# download the attached schemas.tar
wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1692916/+attachment/4883522/+files/schemas.tar
tar xf schemas.tar
./tools/cloudconfig-schema --doc # to dump rst from the schema definition
./tools/cloudconfig-schema --doc | rst2man | man -l - # manpage
 for file in `ls schemas`; do echo '--------------------------- BEGIN ' $file; cat schemas/$file; echo -e '--------------------------- OUTPUT: '; ./tools/cloudconfig-schema --config-file schemas/$file; echo -e '--------------------------- END ' $file '\n\n'; done;

#run unit tests
tox -- --tests tests/unittests/test_handlers/test_handler_ntp.py

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~chad.smith/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/324640
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