Comments on: How to Replace Netplan with /etc/network/interfaces in Ubuntu

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 04:00:10 +0000

In reply to Geoffrey Gates. @Geoffrey, Sure! Here's a simple and friendly reply: --- Glad to hear you got all 9 servers up and running so quickly! Netplan was introduced to make network configuration more consistent across Ubuntu systems and to work better with tools like cloud-init. But yes, it can be frustrating sometimes, especially if you're used to the old `interfaces` way. Thanks for sharing your experience!

By: Geoffrey Gates

Geoffrey Gates — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:21:55 +0000

After spending hours troubleshooting Netplan and encountering various errors, we finally decided to disable it and go old school. We reverted to using traditional interfaces configuration, set up and configured 9 Ubuntu servers – all up and running in less than 30 minutes.

Why was Netplan even introduced in the first place?

Thanks for the article!

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:08:13 +0000

In reply to mic.

@mic,

Good catch! I’ll update it.

Thanks!

By: mic

mic — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:41:36 +0000

Please move 'install ifupdown' above 'remove netplan'. If you remove netplan before installing ifupdown, you will not have a network to install ifupdown. Otherwise, great info. Thanks!