Source: waagent
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Arnaud Patard <apatard@hupstream.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
               dh-python,
               python-all,
               python3-all,
               python-setuptools,
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Homepage: https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent
X-Python-Version: all

Package: waagent
Architecture: amd64
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, 
         iptables,
         openssh-server,
         openssl,
         sudo,
         net-tools,
         python-pyasn1
Conflicts: network-manager, walinuxagent
Description: Windows Azure Linux Agent
 The Windows Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages VM interaction with the Windows
 Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for IaaS 
 deployments:
 .
  * Image Provisioning
    - Creation of a user account
    - Configuring SSH authentication types
    - Deployment of SSH public keys and key pairs
    - Setting the host name
    - Publishing the host name to the platform DNS
    - Reporting SSH host key fingerprint to the platform
    - Resource Disk Management
    - Formatting and mounting the resource disk
    - Configuring swap space
 .
  * Networking
    - Manages routes to improve compatibility with platform DHCP servers
    - Ensures the stability of the network interface name
 .
  * Kernel
    - Configure virtual NUMA (disable for kernel <2.6.37)
    - Consume Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random
    - Configure SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)
 .
  * Diagnostics
    - Console redirection to the serial port
 .
  * SCVMM Deployments
    - Detect and bootstrap the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System
      Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 environment
 .
  * VM Extension
    - Inject component authored by Microsoft and Partners into Linux VM (IaaS)
      to enable software and configuration automation
      see https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions
