Ubuntu: migrate from Ifupdown to Netplan. Step by step.

In Ubuntu 18.04 old good ifupdown is considered obsolete. And you need to migrate your servers to systemd-networkd + netplan. Lots of internet resources describe how to revert back to ifupdown but I am hailing the future! So this manual covers 2 situations, static networking & DHCP. Both are IPv4.

systemctl disable networking.service 
apt-get remove ifupdown -y

apt-get install netplan.io libnet-cidr-perl -y
systemctl enable systemd-networkd

DEV=`facter networking.primary`

rm /etc/netplan/*

grep dhcp /etc/network/interfaces 

Now follow either DHCP or Static part.

######## DHCP START
echo "network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    $DEV:
      nameservers:
          addresses: [8.8.8.8]
      dhcp4: yes" | tee /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml

######## DHCP END

###### STATIC START

GW=$( ip ro get 8.8.8.8  | grep -P '(?<=via )[\d\.]+(?= )' -o )
NETMASK=$( facter networking.netmask )
CIDR=$( perl -e 'use Net::CIDR; print \
    Net::CIDR::addrandmask2cidr("'$IP'", "'$NETMASK'")."\n"; ' ) 
IP=$( facter networking.ip )

echo "network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    $DEV:
      addresses:
        - $IP/24
      gateway4: $GW
      nameservers:
          addresses: [8.8.8.8]" | tee   /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml 

###### STATIC END

Then apply new conf & see its status in networkctl

netplan apply
systemctl stop  networking.service
sleep 2; networkctl list $DEV

And reboot the server!