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Grant White posted Thu March 26, 2026 08:16 AM

I am trying to put together a cloud-init metadata yaml file that will set my network information in a VCenter Environment:

  • IP Address and Subnet
  • Default Gateway
  • Primary/Secondary DNS Servers
  • Host Name (Optional)

Does anyone have a known good cloud-init metadata yaml configuration for VCenter that is bare bones and just achieves the networking portion requested and works with the SevOne 7.2.0 OVA?

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Jason Anderson

Since cloud-init is an industry standard. the format is very flexible and depends on your particular environment.

You can boot up the OVA and take a look around to answer any Operating Specific questions you may have.

It might help to know that SevOne runs on Redhat 8.1 Operating System and uses Network Manager for networking.

You probably want to take a look at this page:
Networking config Version 2 - cloud-init 26.1 documentation
To help you build the correct metadata yaml file for network settings in your environment.

This guide is a bit specific to VMWare but I don't think you need it if you're just trying to set the network information:
VMware - cloud-init 26.1 documentation

This is kind of the opposite of the "bare bones" you asked for and shows a simple example of almost all the options that I found very helpful:
https://docs.cloud-init.io/en/latest/reference/network-config-format-v2.html#examples


But a barebones SevOne 7.2.0 example you are seeking would look something like this (formatting/spacing may be altered by the forums):

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    <interface name>:
      dhcp4: false
      addresses:
        - <ip address>/<CIDR netmask>
      gateway4: <gateway>
      nameservers:
        addresses: [<dns primary>, <dns secondary>]
      renderer: NetworkManager

Here is an example for my particular environment (formatting/spacing may be altered by the forums):


network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    eth0:
      dhcp4: false
      addresses:
        - 10.49.11.50/21
      gateway4: 10.49.8.1
      nameservers:
        addresses: [10.49.8.4, 10.49.8.4]
      renderer: NetworkManager

Hope that helps get you started!