Short-term solution here will likely be for livecd-rootfs to augment cloud-init.service which drops `Before=sysinit.target` and adds an `After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service`. This is quite a bit like what redhat and derivatives have done for a while. Redhat and derivitatives have an `After=NetworkManager.service` for cloud-init.service config and no `Before=sysinit.target`. Suse injects an `After=dbus.service` which also puts it at the same boot timeframe as NetworkManager-based environments.[1]
It does mean that cloud-init datasource gets detected a couple seconds later in boot, meaning that any service depending on `/run/cloud-init/instance-data.json` will also get delayed a couple of seconds, but doesn't delay overall boot process.
Long-term solution may be to see if we can improve NetworkManager dependency on dbus.service so that it could support late-bind interaction once dbus.socket comes online.
Short-term solution here will likely be for livecd-rootfs to augment cloud-init.service which drops `Before= sysinit. target` and adds an `After= NetworkManager- wait-online. service` . This is quite a bit like what redhat and derivatives have done for a while. Redhat and derivitatives have an `After= NetworkManager. service` for cloud-init.service config and no `Before= sysinit. target` . Suse injects an `After= dbus.service` which also puts it at the same boot timeframe as NetworkManager- based environments.[1]
It does mean that cloud-init datasource gets detected a couple seconds later in boot, meaning that any service depending on `/run/cloud- init/instance- data.json` will also get delayed a couple of seconds, but doesn't delay overall boot process.
Long-term solution may be to see if we can improve NetworkManager dependency on dbus.service so that it could support late-bind interaction once dbus.socket comes online.
References: /github. com/canonical/ cloud-init/ blob/main/ systemd/ cloud-init. service. tmpl#L19- L27
[1] upstream suse/redhat cloud-init.service configuration NetworkManager/dbus ordering https:/