Byobu in Cloud Instances
Ubuntu cloud instances necessarily run services headless, and disconnected. Byobu is an Ubuntu-driven enhancement of GNU Screen that can provide some significant benefits over a traditional command line in the cloud. This blueprint suggests that Byobu launch by default in Ubuntu's cloud images, with an easy opt-out mechanism. This behavior is currently trivial to toggle with 'byobu-enable' and 'byobu-disable', as well as through the preseed. If there are remaining blockers or usability issues with Byobu, let's chart a list. And if not, let's take a bold step to ensure that Ubuntu's cloud images are distinct, feature-filled, and provide the most modern and advanced user experience.
Some previous discussions at:
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Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Robbie Williamson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Dustin Kirkland
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for oneiric
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- oneiric-alpha-2
- Started by
- Robbie Williamson
- Completed by
- Robbie Williamson
Whiteboard
No work items?
Session Notes:
-Enable disabling all status monitoring eye candy easily
-Easily enable/disable byobu in metadata
-Easily disable byobu
-MOTD messaging
-respect an ssh environment variable locally on the ssh client that says "no byobu" to the remote server
-roll Alpha1-3 images with Byobu enabled, revisit decision before feature freeze with plan of including in 11.10 barring any critical regressions or issues
Work Items:
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.