[Bug 1616928] [NEW] netplan should support managing wlan devices via wpasupplicant

[Oliver Grawert]

Public bug reported:

in the embedded world developers often do not use network-manager but instead create an
/etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 file with content like:
--
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wpa-ssid XXXXXXXXX
  wpa-psk XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
--

currently netplan only supports wireless management via network-manager.
this consumes ram and diskspace and also runs permanent daemon processes
as well as dbus services which might not be desired on constrained
embedded systems.

it would be nice if netplan could support the simple combination of
ifupdown and wpasupplicant alongside network-manager for wireless
management.

** Affects: nplan (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: nplan (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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Title:
  netplan should support managing wlan devices via wpasupplicant

Status in nplan package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  in the embedded world developers often do not use network-manager but instead create an
  /etc/network/interfaces.d/wlan0 file with content like:
  --
  auto wlan0
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid XXXXXXXXX
    wpa-psk XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  --

  currently netplan only supports wireless management via network-
  manager. this consumes ram and diskspace and also runs permanent
  daemon processes as well as dbus services which might not be desired
  on constrained embedded systems.

  it would be nice if netplan could support the simple combination of
  ifupdown and wpasupplicant alongside network-manager for wireless
  management.

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