Ubuntu 17.10 support (#811)

.travis.yml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ before_cache:
 
 env:
   - LXC_NAME=ubuntu1604 LXC_DISTRO=ubuntu LXC_RELEASE=xenial
-  # - LXC_NAME=ubuntu1710 LXC_DISTRO=ubuntu LXC_RELEASE=artful
+  - LXC_NAME=ubuntu1710 LXC_DISTRO=ubuntu LXC_RELEASE=artful
 
 install:
   - sudo tar xf $HOME/lxc/cache.tar -C / || echo "Didn't extract cache."

config.cfg

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ cloud_providers:
       version: latest
   digitalocean:
     size: s-1vcpu-1gb
-    image: "ubuntu-16-04-x64" # ubuntu-16-04-x64 / ubuntu-17-04-x64
+    image: "ubuntu-16-04-x64" # ubuntu-16-04-x64 / ubuntu-17-10-x64
   ec2:
     size: t2.micro
     image:

roles/common/tasks/ubuntu.yml

@@ -44,6 +44,23 @@
   tags:
     - cloud
 
+- name: Install system specific tools
+  package: name="{{ item }}" state=present
+  with_items:
+    - ifupdown
+  tags:
+    - always
+
+- name: Ensure the interfaces directory exists
+  file:
+    path: /etc/network/interfaces.d/
+    state: directory
+    mode: 0755
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+  tags:
+    - always
+
 - name: Loopback for services configured
   template: src=10-loopback-services.cfg.j2 dest=/etc/network/interfaces.d/10-loopback-services.cfg
   notify: