Netplan

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Netplan, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Ubuntu's invented networking tool lacks basic features and usability of alternatives2025-05-08
Netplan CIDR syntax can't specify multiple addresses, forcing a cron workaround2023-11-14
Can't verify config before applying, and deleting a VLAN isn't possible without bypassing Netplan2023-11-14
A slight YAML misconfiguration looked correct but rendered the server unbootable2023-09-20
Can't figure out how to apply changes to just one interface; all or nothing2022-03-07
Dislikes Ubuntu's network configuration tool Netplan, finds it cumbersome2019-01-16
Configuring one NIC with a static IP is harder than it should be2018-05-25