Systemd-Networkd

Sometimes network interface autonegotiation doesn’t work as well as it should. Luckily, you can fix it with systemd-networkd. 🔧

My OpenStack cloud depends on Ubuntu, and the latest release of OpenStack-Ansible (what I use to deploy OpenStack) requires Ubuntu 16.

I’ve talked about predictable network names (and seemingly unpredictable ones) on the blog before, but some readers asked me how they could alter the network naming to fit a particular situation.

Switching to systemd-networkd for managing your networking interfaces makes things quite a bit simpler over standard networking scripts or NetworkManager.

I’ve written about systemd-networkd in the past and how easy it can be to set up new network devices and tunnels.