Configure Network Option no longer in appliance_console for VMware Appliance Radjabov

[bfilion87]

We just downloaded the latest VMWare vsphere appliance for Radjabov version and when we deployed the ovf, and launched the appliance_console, we noticed there is no longer a Configure Network option like there has been previously. Is that intentional?

[Fryguy]

Yes, that is intentional...I should probably update the blog post to make this known. See ManageIQ/manageiq-appliance_console#238

Network settings should be configured through the standard network tools on the appliance, such as cockpit, nmcli or nmtui. Part of the reason we did this was because after we upgraded to CentOS Stream 9 we found that all of the old ifcfg network tooling was removed, which the appliance console was based on, so everything was broken.

@bdunne Can you provide more detail here? Separately, can you help me put together an update to the blog post mentioning this?

[bfilion87]

@Fryguy ok thank you for the quick response!

[bfilion87]

One thing I am noticing, at least when using nmcli or nmtui is that the changes I am attempting to make do not persist a reboot. Any ideas what may be overwriting those changes on the appliances?

[agrare]

@bfilion87 That is likely due to cloud-init, try disabling cloud init and see if that resolves the issue for you.

[bfilion87]

Thanks @agrare that seemed to do the trick!

[agrare]

I thought we had that documented but I'm not seeing it, let me open an issue for that specifically