DHCP snippets are deprecated

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As mentioned in MD6 - DHCP snippets are deprecated DHCP snippets will be removed in MAAS 3.7.0.

Reserving IP addresses will be supported in a different way, but I wonder if anyone is considering other use cases? We are using the snippets to enable ZTD (zero touch deployment) for our Dell switches. So in order for that to work we have a global snippet

option ztd-provision-url code 240 = text;

and then a per-device snippet for each switch, for example:

option ztd-provision-url "http://172.17.102.3/ztd/os10-switch15.sh";

So without snippets, will there be no way to customize DHCP from MAAS 3.7.0 on?

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Hey there!

Thank you for sharing your use case.

DHCP snippets will definitely go away in one of the next releases. But unless I stand corrected we are not going to remove them in 3.7.0 for now.

The good news is that we have plans to add support for provisioning network devices in MAAS, but we don’t have an ETA yet.